For background I found out about vaping about 8 years ago and got into selling them to the people I sold weed to as a new alternative to cigarettes. I got so far as to making the juice and mixing it up in my kitchen diluting lethal concentrations of liquid nicotine. Seriously, it will absorb through your skin and kill you.
About a year later it caught on wildly and vape shops were popping up everywhere, I was seriously considering opening up a shop when I seen them opening everywhere I lost interest because my interest in it was offering something unique, and shops were now everywhere, so I turned it aside.
Now, from the very start of the vaping scene the argument against it was their are no real clinical trials or studies to determine long term effects. This was immediately combated by the fact that you are literally inhaling water vapor and it couldn't possibly be as harmful to your lungs as the carcinogen filled smoke of cigarettes.
Although I myself decided to stop using and promoting ecigs, I've kept my eye on the scene and taken notice to the advancements of where they are going with this. For 8 years ive kept my ears to the ground because it was a passion of mine at one point, I thought I was going to help change the world, and suddenly it's everywhere.
The whole point i'm rambling on to get to is, I've been watching this evolution for almost a decade, and for almost a decade nobody was dropping dead from vaping until a month ago. Man, have you seen the instagram videos of people engulfing themselves in literal clouds of smoke? For 8 straight years! And now they're suddenly dropping dead? All in a month span? There's something fishy going on here and everyone is just playing right along like sheep.
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[–] ibepokey 4 points 34 points 38 points (+38|-4) ago (edited ago)
big tobacco is feeling the pain. gotta get that revenue back up.....
EDIT: walmart STILL sells tobacco, but not ecig stuff.
[–] spaceman84 3 points 20 points 23 points (+23|-3) ago
Big tobacco is heavily invested in ecigs dumbass.
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[–] tentra 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
People seem to have an easier time weaning off ecigarettes than traditional cigarettes.
[–] ibepokey 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
yeah, the 2 bigs have soaked up a couple companies. NOT the vaping industry as a whole.
majority of vape customers aren't buying the big tobacco trash.
watch some more MSM dumbass.
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[–] ibepokey 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
you got that fucking right.
[–] Reverse-Flash 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
big tobacco is addicted to cancer cash. gotta get that fix, yo.
[–] Platypus43 [S] 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
What their essentially doing is turning it back to an underground thing, which is very easy to do, you want to vape? It does not take a fucking scientist
[–] hang_em_high 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Exactly. What is it, 2-3 ingredients depending on how you blend it? Maybe a couple more if you want different flavors. It's been years since I vaped (and quit a decade long habit easily) so I need to figure out how this stuff is made again and push this anytime someone complains about this. Just make your own.
[–] ibepokey ago
that's the thing about this. if you can do math, and buy the components, you can make your own juice.
even jewgle will give you resources for making the stuff at home.
i think that's a pretty big risk to BT. but even worse, any company that wants to mix and sell juice, can. the equipment is easy enough to get. vaping is killing big tobacco, and they're having a hard time meeting all the settlement agreements now.