The continual praise of JUUL is disgusting. I can’t believe people buy the PR spin that it makes us healthier because “it’s not cigarettes.” A tiny % switch from cigarettes to something (maybe) marginally less harmful in exchange for re-addicting large swaths of the population.
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred
The health benefits from the switch are substantial — for a long time vaping was a solid win on net. But even assuming relatively low medical harm, nicotine addiction is a real beast. IMO, there's a severe cost to the psyche to be owned by a drug in that way, especially so young
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Replying to @webdevMason @AustenAllred
Do you think if peeps got addicted to nicorette there would be the same level of outrage about the shift in nicotine delivery mode?
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Replying to @gabebassin @AustenAllred
I was addicted to nicotine gum until about 4 months ago. It's not at all glamorous to have a wad of gum in your mouth all the time, so it's no surprise that it wouldn't really catch on with teens. But yeah, if there were a teen trend there I think it'd be concerning
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Curious if you've read this piece:https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/opinion/sunday/can-nicotine-be-good-for-you.html …
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Replying to @mattdiamond @webdevMason and
The age thing is definitely a concern, but I think it's also worth debating why certain addictions are treated as relatively benign (like coffee) and others as life-destroying. Sometimes I get the sense that society views dependency itself as intrinsically harmful.
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That's more a question of is addiction inherently bad? Is nicotine bad for you on a standalone basis?
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I can't claim expertise, but I know that Gwern has done some interesting research on it: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
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Replying to @mattdiamond @gabebassin and
he discusses the addictiveness of nicotine and other health issues, but he also lists a surprising number of benefits suggested by clinical researchpic.twitter.com/PbcigrFRQu
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Definitely note that the more attractive benefits taper off very quickly with tolerance. I know some people who use nicotine intermittently in a nootropic stack to prevent this, but IMO, it's playing w fire (indeed, at least a few have had to counter inadvertent dosage increases)
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Playing with fire simply because more often than not it leads to cigarette smoking or something else?
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No, because it leads to increased use with decreased benefits that can spiral out. It's no fun dealing with an expensive addiction that's no longer even delivering the cognitive benefits you wanted in the first place
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