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WHO calls for higher cigarette taxes, plus graphic warnings on vapes, heated tobacco products and nicotine pouches

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/23/smoking-vapes-tobacco-industry-world-health-organization-gains-dangers-global-health


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Vaping is how I quit smoking cigarettes. I was also much more addicted to vapes than I ever was to cigarettes, but at least I didn't cough as much. Now I use nicotine pouches. The day all this shit is illegal is going to be a good day for human health.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I did the cig-vape-pouch thing. When I started vaping (when it was still believed innocuous) I noticed I breathed the same or worse than smoking, and my nicotine intake rose, because I coud just chug on the thing continuously. I then went to pouches. That actually helped. It did send my heart racing, but no smoke/vapor/smell. I quit a few months back. Allen Carr's book helped.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I had such a nasty smokers cough and spit up such nasty brown shit all day, especially in the morning, when I smoked cigarettes. I vape now, and I definitely still feel like it’s harming my lungs, no question about that, but instead of being out of breath all the time, I only get out of breath when I’m actively vaping, and I don’t cough so loud I wake up people two houses down anymore. Quitting vaping is definitely hard though, nicotine intake is instant and higher because there’s no built in “quit” like when you finish a cigarette.