• 3abas@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    They are not made specifically to make chicken addicted. Some companies did, but vaping itself wasn’t made to get children addicted… It is addictive, and not as smelly, and doesn’t make you cough your tar covered lungs out, so kids who can get their hands on them get addicted.

    Kids will still get them, but now they’ll have more questionable ingredients, they’ll be more expensive, and they’ll be funding organized crime. Good job government.

    Teach your kids about the importance of saying no, and let them make their own mistakes every now and then. Vaping is hardly the worst thing they can get hooked on.

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      9 hours ago

      From what I’ve read, there are 2 chemical-kinds of nicotene, 1 of which is called “freebase” nicotene, which hits quicker, & therefore is more addictive.

      Yes, cigarette-tobacco has been bred ( if not engineered ) to increase the freebase nicotene ( can’t remember which company it was that got caught on that, their actions demonstrating that it’s a drug they were optimizing-for ),

      & vape-companies intentionally engineer their products to be as addictive as they can be.

      Children don’t have fully-myelated-brains ( until about 21, which is why outlawing drinking until 21 so drastically reduces slaughter of lives on the roads ), & holding that they just have to “be more adult” when their brains literally can’t be, is either denial or machiavellianism ( depends on the person’s motivation ), AND victim-blaming, in my view.


      What Mexico’s doing, effectively, is GIVING a chunk of their economy to the drug-cartels.

      Which is idiocy.

      Decriminalize everything, tax it to death, do whatever, but we need to be gutting, not increasing, organized-crime’s economy.


      Nicotene kills the nervous-system of the gut, & it’s likely doing the same kind of damage to the rest of the nervous-system ( Dr. Gershon’s incorrectly-named book “The Second Brain”, about the nervous-system of the gut, which is the original brain! )


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      • blackris@discuss.tchncs.de
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        8 hours ago

        Freebase was the standard in Vapes for many years. Vaping liquids with freebase nicotine will keep your nic level up for the day. There is not a kick involved. This is different with nic salts. They behave like the nicotine in cigarettes.

        Also current vapes have a much higher percentage of nicotine. When I vaped (comming from smoking), I mixed my liquids with 6 mg/ml. I think the standard today is 20 mg/ml. That is the reason, kids like them. Not the taste. You have much smaller clouds, than in the previous generations, but the high doses of nic salt give you a real nice kick.