• dizzle18@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    The squirrels were sighted shortly afterwards in a poorly modified Subaru WRX.

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    3 months ago

    Disposable vapes are genuinely evil. With the lithium inside the batteries they are significantly more dangerous than throwing a cigarette out your car window. They have chips inside them with metals that can be recycled and they are made of a hard plastic that’ll be around for thousands if years. Whenever I mention this to people I know they agree with me that it’s evil but continue to use disposable vapes because it’s more convenient. I keep telling my roommates that it’s massively cheaper to get a refillable one and they always agree but never buy one. Every time I go to the vape shop to get juice and coils I drop off a literal tub of disposable vapes from my roommates.

    I’m so tired of people being complacent in this and I’m tired of making this rant. People will get nervous about batteries when they see a phone explode in someone’s pocket but they’ll throw that shit on the ground or in the trash without a second thought. Just go back to smoking if you wanna throw shit on the ground. It’s better for the environment and public safety that way anyway.

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        3 months ago

        Using it to quit smoking is a good idea, and the only one actually.

        But disposable !? FUCK ME this world is doomed…

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          Using it to quit smoking is a good idea

          Not really. You are just exchanging one addictive habit for another. Tobacco companies have been selling vapes as safe alternatives to smoking driven by social media bots and MD shills, but it’s a big fucking lie.

          Heating glycerol to make vapor breaks glycerol, a safe compound into DHA dihydroacetone, which causes DNA damage which can trigger cancer in lung.

          But that’s just DHA. We have no idea and have no testing or regulation of what goes into vapes coming out of Chinese chemical plants. No one is looking at this.

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            1. Vapes don’t typically get hot enough to break glycerin down into DHA. The normal temperature range is 400-450F while glycerin breaks down at 536F

            2. That’s an invitro study which is basically worthless.

            3. That’s a valid point about Chinese eliquid, which is part of why disposables aren’t a good option.

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          3 months ago

          Actually the stats say that only a fraction of people quit, but instead increase the nicotine content.

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          3 months ago

          I remember reading somewhere that vaping is more addictive than smoking. Sure it is not as bad as smoking health wise but the bar is set extremely low.

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            I believe it, it can have a much higher nicotine concentration if you want it to and vape juice is tasty.

            The one saving grace of cigarettes are that they taste like garbage so it’s harder to get proper addicted to them. But a good vape will taste like candy even to a non smoker, so you can get drunk with your buddy one night and take a couple rips off of his watermelon flavored vape and exit that night with an intense craving for more, ask me how I know.

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      3 months ago

      Have you seen this shit?

      Factory workers test 1000 of these contraptions per day.

      it’s truly evil.

      Human beings will get extinct due choosing convenience over sustainability.

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        Yeah, surprisingly. But it’s just vaping now. I started vaping to quit smoking but you have to account for half of gen z getting hooked on juuls awhile back. When those first became popular I was more surprised when I found people that didn’t vape.

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          Honesty I wouldn’t be surprised if we start seeing people with major health issues because of vaping. Vaping gives the illusion of being clean but in reality the vapors are fully of all sorts of nasty chemicals.

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    3 months ago

    The tobacco-toting treehopper

    What tobacco? The whole point of a vape is that it doesn’t burn tobacco…