Don"t feel the hype: e-cigarettes will not ruin society, they changed my existence | Nick Green

A protester smokes an e-cigarette during a demonstration in Rome, to protest a proposed tax on e-cigarettes. Photograph: Alberto Pizzol/AFP/Getty Pictures

There are a great deal of “self loathing” smokers out there, men and women genuinely ashamed that they are chained to tobacco. When I was a smoker, I was the comprehensive opposite of that. I loved currently being a smoker, celebrated it even. Walking all around the Las Vegas strip, sitting at the blackjack table with a cocktail in a single hand and a cigarette in the other felt classy or sophisticated to me. I just assumed that I would smoke for the rest of my existence and that it would eventually kill me. You can judge me, but hear me out.

Electronic cigarettes and “vaping” have altered my daily life. I began shooting YouTube videos and blogging inside of a number of days of receiving my initial “ecig”. Men and women necessary to know about this miracle device. They necessary to know that a staunch tobacco lover had just effortlessly gone three total days without having a cigarette. I had to inform men and women, as a lot of as I could. I desired to get as a lot info out there as attainable.

Back in 2009, the “vape community” was little: we had small batteries, underneath-performing atomizers and oddly flavored “juice” from China. But we created it function. We had been all truly fired up, and it felt like one thing we were all going via with each other – discovering new batteries and gadgets, discussing juices, welcoming new people into the fold. There was (and even now is) an mind-boggling sense of camaraderie.

That same sense of camaraderie is what I feel preserve us powerful in the encounter of relentless attacks from the mainstream media, as nicely as government bodies like the FDA and Globe Overall health Organization. Watching un-informed politicians and lawmakers trying to ban and heavily regulate electronic cigarettes just breaks my heart. Why do they so badly want to take this superb issue, that has aided thousands on thousands of folks end using tobacco, away from us? Why is it in their ideal interests to make utilizing an electronic cigarette as challenging as possible?

We have lately observed all sorts of arguments from the anti-vaping-crowd, ranging from a need to have to shield the young children to the incredibly outdated and inaccurate anti-freeze argument – based mostly on a tiny-scope examine the FDA did in 2010. Presently, the massive trend in the crusade against vaping is arguing that e-cigarette use will by some means get non-smokers addicted to nicotine, and that they will then move from vaping to tobacco cigarettes. Politicians and the public merely cannot believe that vaping is not the up coming scourge of society.

If I could tension one particular issue to anyone, it would be the incredibly crucial level that e-cigarette use is not about being one hundred% safe and harmless it is about harm reduction. It truly is about becoming safer than the alternative. It’s in fact comparable to clicking on a seat belt when you get in the vehicle. For former smokers, it’s about feeling greater about yourself, not smelling like an ashtray, and becoming excited about not utilizing tobacco.

The present scenario in New York City is the ideal illustration of un-informed politicians generating knee-jerk reactions based on poor science and the testimonies by Massive Pharma funded lobbyists and anti-smoking/anti-vaping activists fed lines from PR firms.

This community is 1 of the most vocal I have been a portion of. We are passionate about harm reduction we have noticed how effectively e-cigs operate. I have personally spoken with 30, forty, 50-year smokers that have last but not least been able to stop making use of tobacco thanks to vaping.

I feel that vaping can and will alter the world for smokers it truly is a revolution in tobacco harm reduction. Much more than any other item currently obtainable, I think that vaping has the capability to actually help these individuals. Non-smokers could in no way realize how genuinely challenging it is to end making use of cigarettes. I consider that if they did, then no one particular would stand among smokers and their capacity to purchase and use electronic cigarettes.

Don"t feel the hype: e-cigarettes will not ruin society, they changed my existence | Nick Green