When I first heard about vaping, in the mid-2000s - I thought - great idea. or signup to continue reading According to the experts - then - it was a safer way to get a nicotine hit - a safer way to quit smoking. Big tobacco and vape manufacturers used social media and glamorous influencers to sell these new "cool" accessories.
They even came up with the term "vape" - technically they are e-cigarettes. They made vapes look like USBs. They added flavouring; caramel, strawberry, peanut butter, and they used bright colours and cartoon characters - they were .
Worryingly, in the last few years, teachers started reporting that they were seeing kids as young as 8 or 9 vaping. The early sell suggested all you were sucking in was a vapor like air - that it was harmless, but it's not. The experts will tell you that they think it's less harmful than cigarettes, but this vapor is an aerosol, and it carries toxic chemicals into lungs.
The latest studies suggest that . People and governments woke up to the harm and 33 countries have now banned the sale of vapes. But for people who without vapes would go back to smoking cigarettes - banning them entirely is a bad idea.
It will just move them underground - and people using vapes will start buying black-market chop-chop. The government - rightly - wanted to do something about it - and they proposed legislation that would from corner stores and petrol stations. The current legislation proposed by the government means that from July 1, Australi.
