Today's teens are smoking and drinking less

musicprnt
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:51:36 +0000

It is funny, I remember reading future predictions from 40, 50 years ago, that said by now tobacco would be as illegal as heroin is. While I am grateful that smoking has gone from the way it was, when I was young, where people smoked everywhere and non smoking was limited to things like elevators, hospitals and the subway (people smoked in supermarkets, didn’t think twice what that smoke was doing to things like the fish counter or other places where food was exposed)., I am also sorry that it is dug in so deep. Vaping bothers me, the industry was allowed to flourish without regulation and rather than being a controlled device to help people stop smoking, it now has become the new cigarette, and while so far places that ban smoking don’t allow vaping, at least they do around here, I wonder how long it will be until they figure out that even though it doesn’t have the carcinogens that cigarette smoking has, it has long term health consequences from the nicotine being delivered that way (and from what I can tell of vape ads, you can get it in all kinds of concentrations).

Hopefully kids aren’t buying vapes as being this fun, safe, cool adult thing to do…I don’t have the negative impressions of teens many people do, I remember what people said about my generation, I just will hope they have more sense then to support the tobacco industry in any of its forms.