The Juul Fad Is Bigger I Would Have Guessed

Re:The Juul Fad Is Bigger I Would Have Guessed by AnonymousRider on Saturday December 22, 2018 @10:40PM (#18744270)

My grandmother had nine sisters. All nine of them died in their 60’s from emphysema and lung cancer. All told fifteen people in my family died from smoking related illness. These early deaths were absolutely devastating to us kids as they happened in rapid succession.

Vaping saves lives. Vaping saves lungs. Let’s just continue to get people off of burning cigarettes and we can tackle nicotine addiction once cigarettes are a bad memory.

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Re:The Juul Fad Is Bigger I Would Have Guessed by carbocation on Saturday December 22, 2018 @10:46PM (#18744286)

You might be right for smokers who transition to vaping. I would bet money that you are right. When my patients ask me, I tell them my guess, and I am emphatic that it is a guess. We will know the right answer at some point.

However, the concern is that nicotine use is on the upswing among young people (edit: previous nonsmokers) for the first time in many years. If vaping is anything short of harmless, which I think we must presume it is, then this is a brewing problem.

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Re:The Juul Fad Is Bigger I Would Have Guessed by code_duck on Saturday December 22, 2018 @10:47PM (#18744288)

One thing that’s overlooked is that half of smokers die from heart disease, not lung disease. It also causes strokes. Nicotine is terrible for your heart and vaping is as bad or possibly even worse in that respect.

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Re:The Juul Fad Is Bigger I Would Have Guessed by dehrmann on Saturday December 22, 2018 @10:49PM (#18744296)

Ignoring the fact the the science is still out on vaping (though I agree that it's likely safer), if you look the graph in the article, vaping doesn't seem to be a substitute for cigarettes among 12th graders. The decline in smoking is unaffected. To say "vaping saves lives" isn't backed up by the data for 12th graders.

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