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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Vaping is a safer alternative. 95% safer.

Nicotine is about as dangerous and addictive as caffeine (actually a bit less so, but that's splitting hairs). You should really be more concerned about kids being able to buy energy drinks than vapes.

Source: Me. I've been following the research on this for nearly 15 years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Nicotine is more addictive than caffeine in the quantities you regularly consume it and vaping has more serious side effects than drinking a cup of coffee. You're completely correct about vaping being safer than smoking though - for life long smokers the vape can be quite impactful on their long term health... but it's still much healthier to do neither.