I dont particularly understand how menthols make smoking seem attractive to young people, and surely if youre going to ban a type of cigarettes you should ban them altogether (although they probably wont ever do that as they bring in so much tax money)
Unlike with previous smoking quit attempts, vapers felt that they did not have to distance themselves from their existing social networks in order to avoid smoking relapse: some people get into that routine I suppose, where they still quite like to have that time away from their desk and walk outside, cos thats what they were used to when they were smokers, so theyll go and stand outside in the smoking section, but theyll vape (M37) Vaping facilitated a sense of belonging to a specific social group for some: [Theres] a big community [] I see fellow vapers in town we just we just sort of give each other a look, we look at each others mods, its sort of like the classic oh youre a vaper, hi the whole community is all one
I cannot imagine how many cigarettes I have smoked since the night that photo was taken in May 1999
The difference is that flavours matter more to kids than they matter to an adult smoker who might be trying e-cigarettes to quit
Rhrl K, Stenberg B (2010) Lifestyle factors and hand eczema in a Swedish adolescent population
