I am curious to hear from people who started vaping without having smoked beforehand.
I’m curious about these things - feel free to respond to as many or as few of them as you wish. Primarily I am thinking about nicotine, but feel free to reply if you vape something different.
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What age were you when you started vaping? Feel free to reply with a vague range (e.g. 12-15) or description (e.g. young teen / adult)
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Why did you start?
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Do you regret having ever started? If so, why do you regret it?
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Have you noticed any long-term negative health effects from vaping?
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Do you feel that the socialogical and/or legal issues around vaping are more or less of a concern than health effects? (e.g. having to go outside to vape, vaping being banned/restricted in certain places/situations/countries, the risks of vaping being more legally controlled in future, etc.)
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Do you feel that the financial cost of vaping is more or less of a concern than the health effects?
No need to follow the numbered format or anything, this isn’t a survey, I’m just looking for answers to these questions for my own personal curiosity! Also, feel free to add any more information that you wish!
Please only share from your personal experience - no links to news stories or studies, please.
Also, not interested in responses from ex-smokers, sorry - those can be found in huge volume already.
It is true that the 2019 EVALI outbreak linked to tocopheryl acetate contamination got a lot of media attention, but there is evidence of other vaping-related harm.
The review article summarises some of the more recent evidence from across a lot of different studies: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/19/6808.
I specifically asked people not to share studies, because people can pretty easily dig them out themselves, but also because they’re academic documents which most people can’t interpret. I’m looking for personal accounts in this thread.
Do you, or have you ever, vaped?