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This is harmful misinformation that can literally lead to people dying from tobacco related disease.

Vaping, while definitely not healthy, is NOWHERE NEAR as unhealthy as smoking tobacco is. Especially when you do it as intended: temporarily for smoking cessation like I added decades to my life by doing.

I smoked for 18 years, the last 10 of which I tried every other smoking cessation method including prescription medicine and substance abuse therapy. They just didn't work for me.

Vaping did, though. In roughly 6 months I went from smoking a pack or two a day (depending on stress levels and alcohol intake) to neither smoking nor vaping at all and I haven't for over 3 years.

it's healthier

It's less damaging.

It is healthier than cigarettes. Anyone who has smoked and vaped a lot can tell the difference in the damage that it's causing your body. You don't need a scientific study to tell you that not coughing for two hours every morning is better for you.

Don't vape, but if you're going to pick up an addictive habit pick up vaping instead of cigarettes/drinking/gacha games. Much less hazardous to your health.

I mean I switched to vaping a few years back. Still getting a smokers cough and breathing has barely improved. I should quit completely. Vaping has made it slightly easier, though. But in all honesty, screw the health effects of either I'm just glad I don't reek of cigarettes anymore. I didn't realize how absolutely awful my clothes smelt until I switched.

Healthier than cigarettes is such a low bar to clear that it doesn't really mean much.

So, ok, absolutely if you go through disposable vape after disposable vape, yes you are literally throwing batteries away...

But if you get a rechargeable, refillable pocket vape, which you can get for maybe the cost of two or three disposables...

Then you are just recharging a battery. Usually a much smaller (in terms of energy capacity) battery than even the crappiest phone.

Obviously you should not pick up vaping as a habit, but it is faaaar less bad for you than smoking, and if you were already addicted to smoking, well switching to a vape is healthier and less expensive.

Myself I spent almost a decade smoking, switched to a vape and my lung capacity is greatly improved, oral health is way better, oh and no more horrific coughing. I am slowly dialing down the concentration in the hopes that one day I'll be able to quit.

Before that it was years of trying to quit cigarettes, making it a week or a month with none, giving up and getting a pack, feeling like a piece of shit figuratively and literally as they'd make me sick again.

People do not seem to widely realize or appreciate that nicotine withdrawals are as bad or worse than heroin withdrawals.

Another hand grenade you can throw into this is: Sure, smoking weed has varying medicinal properties, but it also has the problem that you are smoking something.

Do you smoke your blunts through a filter?

No?

Oh, ok so thats about the same tar and particulate matter as the same amount of smoking hand rolled cigarettes.

Ive known plenty of habitual weed smokers with the traditionally tobacco associated 'smokers cough', and they would tell me that smoking MJ is actually healthy for you as they are weezing and out of breath, hacking up a lung after a flight or two of stairs.

I have this vape and i just reload it like a sawn off shotgun

What movie is this from?

My only problem with people that vape is they think they can do it where you can't smoke a cigarette and/or joint. Sorry bro, get over here with the rest of us, no one wants to smell your shitty strawberry flavored whatever.

A lot of comments here are saying that vaping is apprently healthier than smoking. But we don't actually know that. All independent studies I know of say that we can't tell the long term consequences to vaping lungs yet.

Everyone that says that vaping is healthier than smoking is just parotting the companies that sell vapes.

Edit: Some videos about that topic:

https://youtu.be/XuTQbOo3Y30

https://youtu.be/bbV6I8VRMG8

to be fair it is, especially in the quantities you would need that huge power bank for

Check out this comprehensive review from 2022 about vaping and health:
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-065997

The last bit in its conclusion section states:
"The true impact of vaping on respiratory health will manifest over the coming decades, but in the interval a prudent and time tested recommendation remains to abstain from consumption of inhaled nicotine and other products."