I dunno... I saw this hit my feed with a couple of non-smokers sharing it. I read it and it just seemed like propaganda...
Think about it, the new regs are coming into force in May. Then a bunch of pictures come up with a guy with burns on his face "pulling pieces of plastic out of his face" and teeth missing. That's a bit dramatic. Then, when I was reading it, it was like "I know vaping is good and it stops people smoking which is really dangerous but this vaping thing causes explosions. It happened from some coils a vape shop put in for me but vaping is good for stopping smoking but it's super dangerous. You need to think about what you're doing. I'm not against it, I just want you guys to be safe. Think about it."
A day or two later, a video comes out with a bunch of people having their mods exploding in their pockets/faces telling us how dangerous it is what we're doing.
Now there's people out there who are smokers and are scared to get off the snout and onto the electric fags because of this. There are a lot of non-smokers who think "it looks like smoking so it is obviously smoking and I want it nowhere near me" who are now thinking people are going to go full-on suicide bomber and blow up next to them when they're having a knock on their mod because of this.
And me, being the paranoid, cynical prick I am, I'm sitting here thinking "Why all of a sudden? Why now?" Are the tobacco companies really losing that much money? Is the government really missing their taxes that much?
It just seems a little too much, too soon before a big change to what we're doing.
*adjusts tin-foil hat*
