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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (15 children)

Nicotine juice has been flavored from the very start. Way back in the day when premixed juices didn't even exist and vapers - who were pretty much exclusively smokers looking for a safer alternative - had to buy propylene glycol and nicotine extract and mix it themselves, we also bought flavoring, because the simple fact of the matter is that unflavored nicotine juice doesn't taste like cigarettes - it tastes sorr of like hand sanitizer mixed with ear wax.

This whole uproar about flavored vapes is a bizarre fiction being promoted by busybody assholes and idiots - by crusading fuckwads using something they self-evidently know absolutely nothing about to feed their desperate and pathetic need to feel self-righteous.

After thirty years of trying and failing to quit smoking, vaping is almost certainly the only reason I'm alive today, and these foul busybody shitbags want to ruin that for me and everyone else in the same position, and bluntly, fuck them. They're fucking scum.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I kind of love how you acknowledge how addictive nicotine is, yet can't fathom tobacco companies, the same people who lied to their customers for decades to keep their industry afloat, making products specifically to entice new users at an easily suggestible stage in their life.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This whole thread is fucking wild.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was waiting to reply with, "If you prioritize your convenience over harm to children, just own it." But all I got was downvotes.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The shit this guy spits at petitioners is beyond belief, but the fact everyone's with him is incomprehensible. All over some shit he acknowledges he can just do in his kitchen, without commercial support, using the drugs nobody's talking about banning.

Meanwhile any implication of 'would you have wanted someone to prevent your addiction?' goes totally unanswered.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Well, a part of me just wants to watch the world burn, and this and posts like it sate that desire. It's also a good reminder to use Voyager's tags so I remember this guy if we cross paths again.

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