I smoked for a number of years. I liked it. I didn't want to quit, but for years I thought I should. I tried cold turkey, gum, patches. Didn't work for even a day.
2/4
I first heard about e-cigarettes late in 2009. I looked into them, but saw that ecigs containing nicotine were not legal in Canada. I knew they wouldn't work without nicotine, so I forgot about them.
3/4
In 2014 I saw this CBC piece. Nicotine vaping was a possibility after all. I didn't know anyone who vaped & the nearest vape shop was over 200 km away. I researched. A lot.
My first vape kit arrived in the mail in March 2014. From the first puff I was instantly a nonsmoker. I have not touched a cigarette since. As far as I'm concerned, the Government of Canada is directly responsible for extending my time as a smoker by more than four years.
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Thread: What happens in the real world when flavor bans are implemented
1. 'San Francisco’s ban on flavored tobacco product sales was associated with increased smoking among minor high school students relative to other school districts.'
2. 'These results suggest that the Massachusetts flavor ban and tax did not reduce e-cigarette consumption in the Greater Boston area, and that messaging questioning the safety of e-cigarettes led to an increase in combustible cigarette use.'
3. '...we estimated around 3 million additional cigarette packs have been sold during the period of the temporary bans that would not have been sold otherwise, including 1.85 million packs in Massachusetts, 877k packs in Washington and 281k packs in Rhode Island with flavor bans'
This got off to an extremely weak start. The middle of this century stuff is a complete cop-out, and it completely ignores the fact that much is known already.
Khara seemed to have a good handle of the state of the evidence most of the time. To me, the notion that e-cigarettes should only be a last resort looks unethical though.
Underrated point: most conclusions about vaping are based on what's known about smoking. Bad idea imo.
A compilation of preprints, peer-reviewed studies, and datasets documenting SARS-CoV-2/Covid-19 patients' smoking status - only the ones with at least 1000 patients.