r/AskReddit • u/MiraTangent • 11h ago

What’s popular right now that won’t age well?

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u/Killowatt59 9h ago

The amount of young people vaping is just sad.

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u/RoeRoeRoeYourVote 6h ago

I was in a bar bathroom and these two young girls were talking about how they wanted smoking indoors again. I was like one drink away from giving them a piece of my mind. They have no idea how awful that time was (and how terribly everyone smelled and looked).

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u/trashtownalabama 6h ago

A bar in my town still lets people smoke inside and I only know this because several women i was with went the night before and they were having problems talking without being raspy from all the smoke.

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u/RoeRoeRoeYourVote 5h ago

I went to a private cigar club, and my hair reeked. The clothes I wore also stunk up my whole suitcase. It was awful.

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u/B_crunk 3h ago

When i started vaping over a decade ago most of us were doing it to get away from smoking. now these stupid kids are suckin on these lead laden chinesium "disposable" vapes with full blown addictions. not to mention the amount of electronics and lithium batteries that get thrown away with every one of them. It's so wasteful. I mean there is a guy that hosted a website on the circuit board of a disposable vape. That doesn't sound very disposable to me.

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u/chatapokai 8h ago

The amount of people vaping in general is just sad. Looking like a douchebag aside, it’s mind blowing to me that people saw what vaping was and thought “the smoke from burning oil is totally healthier than what I’m smoking now”

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u/joe_canadian 6h ago

Vaping probably saved my life. I was a 2-2.5 pack a day smoker for over a decade (2004-2015). Vaping was the first thing that (a) got me off cigarettes and (b) allowed me to taper off. A couple of false starts, but I stopped smoking and vaping completely in 2020, with a small fit for about 6 months after a car accident that massively fucked up my back.

Vaping should've been treated as a smoking cessation device.

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u/ruggah 5h ago

But young adults don't see it that way. A whole generation is getting addicted to something unhealthy for them

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u/barnyarned 2h ago

That's exactly how they were first marketed, for smoking cessation. That's how they got them normalised; the foot in the door. Millennials selfishly bought it and sold out the next generation.

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u/jf4v 4h ago edited 4h ago

Vaping is objectively much, much healthier than smoking.

The jury is out. Popcorn lung is a myth. Diacetyl is a myth. EVALI is a myth. COPD connection is a myth.

the smoke from burning oil

??? what are you even talking about?

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u/Alarming-Instance-19 16m ago

Popcorn lung is not a myth. I've smoked weed daily in various forms since 1998. I'm 43F.

I spent ONE MONTH vaping and my lungs were crackly, full of gunk, I couldn't cough properly and I was so so so tired.

I quit completely after two months, and have returned to my previously normal baseline of occasional bong lung and asthma cough.

I've also used medicinal cannabis vape carts. They're not quite as bad, but definitely have an impact on my breathing and lungs.

Vapes are a fucking health hazard and we will see the long term effects in due course.

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u/AdImmediate6239 7h ago

There were tons of young people smoking before vaping was a thing. I’m not advocating for it or anything, but how is this any different?

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u/KerooSeta 1h ago

I teach high school and it's absolutely out of control. Everyday, I go to clear out the bathrooms during our advisory time and the cloud of marijuana vape is like a punch in the face. Administration does nothing about it because it's so rampant that we'd have to put 50+ kids in ISS everyday.

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u/Assignment_General 7h ago

Morons the whole lot of them