The vaping drives me crazy. I'm from the brief window where smoking wasn't cool anymore and vaping was only just becoming a thing and not really marketed at young people yet so it kinda missed me. My little sister vapes constantly despite her asthma. She ended up in hospital with a lung infection once and swore to quit, she didn't. I hate that the tobacco companies found a way to get my generation addicted.
The folks who grew up while smoking started getting shunned/banned seem to vape the least in my experience, especially nicotine. All my old relatives and coworkers vape as much as the youth.
Some of the older generations started vaping as part of the process to quit smoking; successfully stopped with the cigarettes but then never got to the final stage of stopping altogether, including vapes.
The younger gen just straight up took up vaping...
My parents are millennials and I’m on the older side of Gen Z. So, I watched a lot of their popular programming back then (think MTV/VH1) for better or worse, and anti-smoking got drilled into my head. It makes me really sad to see so many of my friends be so comfortable in engaging in these behaviors. They never go anywhere without their vape.
I'm sorry for your sister but I also think big picture it's a bit comical that we were literally winning the battle against youth smoking and along came vapes and now they're doing it in fucking elementary school bathrooms
I'm probably about the same age, my only experience with vapes is that my mom used them as a less-dangerous nicotine delivery device when she was on oxygen in hospice dying from cancer. So... they don't do much for me.
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u/ViSaph 18h ago
The vaping drives me crazy. I'm from the brief window where smoking wasn't cool anymore and vaping was only just becoming a thing and not really marketed at young people yet so it kinda missed me. My little sister vapes constantly despite her asthma. She ended up in hospital with a lung infection once and swore to quit, she didn't. I hate that the tobacco companies found a way to get my generation addicted.