This is a thing, and it again shows my naivety!
I thought vaping was to assist cigarette smokers “Kick the habit”, but now it seems people do it just for fun, and have never even tried cigarettes. In fact, there is evidence that vaper users later transition to cigarette smoking as they need to up their nicotine hit.
It might have something to do with the flavors. They have more than Baskin-Robbins. They even have a new flavor: Lucky Strike. It’s very popular with those suffering from emphysema and COPD.
Vaping is a verb, the process of taking something into your system via the vaping device, or an e-cigarette. Just what is the SUBSTANCE they are vaping? A cartridge or reservoir or pod, which holds a liquid solution (e-liquid or e-juice) containing varying amounts of nicotine, flavorings, and other chemicals.
Traveling through Europe last fall, I was stunned by the number of teens who were vaping. I read vaping is more popular than cigarettes among teens. Thank goodness for small favors.
Research so far suggests that vaping devices might be less harmful than combustible cigarettes when people who regularly smoke switch to them as a complete replacement. But nicotine in any form is a highly addictive drug. Research suggests it can even prime the brain’s reward system, putting vapers at risk for addiction to other drugs.
And, it took what, a hundred years for science to tell us cigarettes cause cancer?
There seems to be no end to the extremes human beings will go to kill themselves.