Dear Mr hbk75.
The insignificant nobody me knows where you are coming from, based upon your numerous posts to defend vaping.
1. I do read posts here, more so those that are lengthy, which shows that they put in efforts to explain their positions, even if logic or reason is not presented, as it only shows one's free will and critically, their perceptions, on this site that has thousands of viewers daily, both local and foreign.
2.Your steadfast position is that vapes only contain nicotine, and is only a CHEAPER ALTERNATIVE to the SKY HIGH prices of cigarettes being sold here, which puts a dent on one's savings to live life...although it must be admitted that nicotine is not necessary to enjoy life, as there are many, many more cheaper, even free alternatives to enjoy such.
3. Even Tobacco companies had realized how health concerning the cigarette can be, as it is not the nicotine that harms, but the burning of the cigarette paper, which creates carcinogens that may cause cancer eventually. Thus they hired the best minds to resolve this issue, and Kpods were the result. There is no tar, only nicotine, and even in many flavors.
Unfortunately, with this technology, EQUALLY, psychoactive drugs such as cannabis, heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, etc CAN be easily LACED into such Kpod devices and into the mixtures, even at home AND SOLD FOR IMMENSE PROFITS AND PERSONAL GAINS, as how Thailand shopkeepers had shown the way - just a few drops of cannabis into even a vegetable dish will enable them to get repeated HOOKED customers, even if some whom had never even smoke before suffered and had to be hospitalized for coma and seizures...
Perhaps Tobacco companies will have to take a seat back and reflect on what they had done and opened the way for far far more dangerous players such as drug cartels, more so from Fentanyl China whom had copied their tech and unleashed en masse upon naive Asia...and perhaps find BETTER and SECURE ways if they wish to keep their profits to survive for the meantime....
4. Ultimately, Humans have no need for nicotine or even harsher psychoactive drugs to get high, as such are not only costly, but even deadly to one's precious life...
Just look at the playground, and you will see happy INNOCENT kids playing with each other, regardless of race, language or religion. They never needed such dope to be happy...
We are adults now. facing a real world of realities, and have to have the mental strength to survive. You and I may had presumed cigarettes were cool or helps to destress, but that era when such were cheap and even supported are over, once health concerns, the cost of National Healthcare rose dramatically, and kids turning into zombies thru LACED Kpod vapes.
There is NO NEED to harm innocent kids or teens with dope, thru our own personal needs, satisfaction or desires, or else, they, whom are our future, hopes and dreams, will never survive beyond their teens.....
My sincere apologies if I had offended, as no offence was meant.
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