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If it's not bad for the lungs, we should fluoridate vape juice. (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Probably shouldn't inhale vaporised flourides.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Fluorine is really really bad for your lungs.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Well, never mind then.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I think anything with nicotine in it is bad for you

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Nitpick, but it doesn't always have nicotine. Not to say it isn't harmful.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Well its not good for you so I can't say I'd recommend.

What concerns me is any positive publicity on sm***** or va******. We don't need more people hopeless addicted.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Smoking or vaping*

It's the Internet, it's ok to use the whole word.

[-] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago

I don't as it promotes those products

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

No it doesn't. It's an act that literally every person on this platform has heard of. Saying smoking, drinking, drugs, etc, does not promote the action or product. What trying to censor it does is make what you're saying, confusing. Your message has a lack of information and seriousness, so the effects of what you're trying to express are going to be lost on a lot of readers.

I get what you're saying and empathize with your beliefs, but if you're dealing with adults, you need to use the language to adequately articulate your point. While I may agree with your sentiment, the censor immediately puts your comment at a disadvantage and, at least personally, I write off the subject of it almost immediately.

Just don't go out and say, "go smoke and drink" when discussing those topics, and I think that's good enough to qualify as not promoting those things. Just my two cents. Not trying to be a dick if it comes off that way, just trying to give some outside perspective.

Don't smoke and drink, it's bad.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Pointing out that something exists doesn't mean condoning its usage.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

My two concerns are that, you wouldn't hold the vapor in your mouth long enough for it to actually be helpful, and with some people vaping occasionally, and others doing it constantly, it would be difficult to keep the fluoride levels high enough for casual users to get a benefit, but low enough that all-day every-day folks don't OD.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Or you know, make vapes illegal

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Your comment reminds me of a dog that barks every time someone walks past the house.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Why make them illegal? I used a vape to limit my nicotine intake and weaned myself off of smoking (and vaping) completely. It still sucked for the first 6 months and the occasional random craving that comes from being a smoker for over a decade, but at least I fought each part of the smoking addictions separately which made it bearable.

For clarity, I got 0% nicotine vape juice for a month or so before I quit puffing completely so let the withdrawal from the substance run its course, and then had to deal with the psychological side of things. Which was VERY annoying. Everytime I'd do anything where I'd normally smoke triggered a craving.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What we REALLY need to do is limit the concentration of nicotine in vape juices to no higher than that found in a "standard" cigarette. Part of the problem right now is that you can easily buy vape juice with waaaay more nicotine per puff than any tobacco product so it's much easier to get addicted.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Vaping was integral to me quitting smoking. Vaping isn't the problem, advertising and accessibility of nicotine to youths is the real issue.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

No.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Interesting. Do aerosolized fluoridates adhere to teeth?

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