Hi. Long-time vaper here, by now almost 10 years, after having smoked for almost 40 years. Stopped doing that the evening that I first tried vaping, haven’t touched a cigarette since.

I’m still astounded that the Dutch governments and health agencies discredit vaping, and consider it to be the route towards smoking, instead as a means of quitting. I wonder how your country is treating vaping?

  • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    America here - treated much like cigarettes (and taxed similarly), though I will note that it’s been a while since I’ve smelled tobacco smoke. vape shops basically everywhere around my area (Seattle WA), though I have ordered online from a few places (WA tried to regulate vaping a lot a few years ago so I switched to buying online).

    been vaping for 10 years as well, i prefer a “black honey tobacco” flavor, at 28mg. it’s sweet but has that tobacco bite to it. used to vape all kinds of fruity flavors (blackberry was my favorite), but switched to my current juice a few years ago. I think I’m on my 4th or 5th rig, low-ohm coils that I run at 50w

  • citizen67@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sadly, Canada is little better. They’ve done an excellent job of vilifying vaping, and most provinces have taxed it so heavily as to discourage it over other tobacco use.

    I was a pack a day smoker for more than 20 years, and was finally able to quit with the use of a JUUL. I later transitioned open pod vapes, and then to lower-strength freebase nicotine (20mg/ml). I was fortunate enough to get into DIY before our regulations made it pretty well impractical for mouth-to-lung vapers.