yeah, never fails to amuse me how vaping is seen as such a wonderful thing - over the last ten years or so at work the number of people who smoked dwindled to pretty much nobody, just a few old stalwarts who wouldn't give up for anything, certainly none of the younger ones smoked. Along comes vaping and now I would say well over half of the huge number of new staff use vapes - and its not like when people smoke, they would have a cigarette and then have one later, all the time you see people walking about with their vapes in their hands and as soon as they leave the office (we were in and out all the time) they vape, stop to chat to someone, they vape, I would say most probably don't go more than a couple of minutes without it.
The idea that it would help people stop smoking was great, but as well as that it has created a massive market of its own which is going to dwarf the numbers who used to smoke even decades ago, the way things are going I would say in a few years it will be a minority who don't use them.
And, of course, the majority now use the handy disposable ones, made of plastic with lithium batteries, which are just thrown on the ground when finished with as litter - they used to say how long a cigarette butt would take to decompose but I would imagine that's not half the problem that these devices will cause.
There is a good documentary on Netflix about 'Juul', who started off with lofty ideas about improving health, but it all ended up about getting 'influencers' to target the devices to the youngest they possible could in the constant hunt for more profit.
