no one was tricked by juul, everyone in my highschool knew there was nicotine in it. juul definitely addicted a new generation but i really don’t think it was their evil intentions. teenagers will always find a way.
In a way they were because nobody really understood the full effect. Like they said in the video, people only knew it was less harmful than cigarettes. Again, like they said in the video, their warnings had terms that teenagers didn’t understand.
@@orksca5459 It is less harmful than cigarettes, but it doesn't take much to realise nicotine is still harmful. I don't understand why people would stop or not pick up smoking but do this instead. And also happily smoke pot too. Just stop all narcotics and be healthy.
yeah this video is bull shit, literally everybody knew there was nicotine in it and that's why they bought it!! nobody got tricked into vaping it was pretty clear what it was from the start, kids at my hs before juul became huge were already ripping box mods and cigarettes at parties a good year or two before Juul ever even came to my state. the problem is that humans just love nicotine an every generation will have their preferred method of consumption. like you said, mfs will always find a way. 200 years ago it was peace pipes and chewing tobacco, then it was cigarettes and dip, now it's disposable vapes and zyns.
As a high schooler in 2016, the kids who vaped definitely knew that there was nicotine in vapes and that it would be bad long term. They just literally didn't care. It made them look cool and that was all that mattered. The now adults complaining that they didn't know better is a absolute joke to me.
As someone who just graduated high school, and who has had many mods, I knew what I was doing/ getting into. You can’t tell a young generation not to do something because we will always find a way to do it.
The issue isn't telling teens not to do something. The issue is telling teens it's safe to do something when it really isn't. That's irresponsible. If teens really want to put junk in their system, sure, they'll find a way. But if they're presented with actual facts and not just told "it's safe," many will definitely avoid the stuff in the first place.
@@TheZaius well see the thing is, it is safe to vape, just not vape products with vitamin e acetate. Everyone already knows nicotine is addictive, and knows that breathing anything other than pure air isn't the best for your lungs, but it's a whole lot safer than smoking.
Mushrooms did wonders in my life. Over the course of my life, I've suffered from uncontrollable, depression, anxiety, alcohol, smoking, and illicit pills addiction. Imagine carving heavy chains for a long time and then all of a sudden that burden is gone. This is something that really needs to be used globally to help people with similar health challenges. I've been sober for 6 years and have my life back.
To be honest, mushrooms are one of the most amazing things on the planet and it is natural, they serve in many ways not only for mental related issues.
Can you help me with a reliable source? I have suffered from years of addiction, anxiety, and severe ptsd, thinking I got my panic attacks under control, they've come back with a vengeance, and I'm constantly trying to take full breaths but can't. It's absolutely crippling me, I'm in Switzerland and it is hard to get a reliable source here. Really need!
Yes, Sporeville. I have the same experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD, and addiction... Mushrooms definitely made a huge difference to why I'm clean today.
I wish they were readily available in my place. Microdosing was my next plan of care for my husband. He's 59 & has many mental health issues plus probably CTE & a TBI that left him in a coma 8 days. It's too late now I had to get a TPO as he's 6'6 300+ pound homicidal maniac. He's constantly talking about killing someone. He's violent. Anyone reading this Familiar w/ BPD knows if it is common for an obsession with violence.
Slightly off topic, but I remember finding an old Juul pod on the bathroom floor and assumed it was a lost flash drive (I had never seen a Juul before this). So I naturally turned it into my school's lost and found, and I ended up having to serve a detention because of it. Word spread that I "got in trouble for smoking" and in a few days, I was suddenly "popular". When I mentioned it to my family, my Grandma just sighed "It's the 50s all over again...you either smoke or you're a loser".
As a graphic designer I would just like to say their marketing and logo are ON POINTTTTTTTT branding and marketing can make or break a brand even when it's a terrible product
@@TheCannabisZone not true. juul is an excellent product, not only the marketing and graphic design, but the device itself is exceptionally well designed. sleek, nice balance and weight, simple, it feels like an apple product. and its success over its competitors is for all the exact same reasons apple has such a large market share of its market.
I was a pack to half a pack smoker a day until juul. I switched to juul when the pandemic hit bc I knew I couldn’t afford $10 a day patiently waiting for backed up unemployment from my shut down restaurant job. I didn’t think I could do it, go from heavy religiously smoking every day to this device and get the same satisfaction from a cigarette. After a week or so I didn’t miss my morning smoke with my coffee or having to drive to get cigarettes once I was out. I than realized how bad I smelled and my belongings I constantly smoked in or near…I was finally ready to switch. Then low and behold my state issued a band on all flavor vapors and it Infuriated me because I finally was off actually tobacco. Juul helped me, I wish it wasn’t so negatively perceived but actually a godsend to smokers who choose to quit cigarettes. My state may have chosen to ban the flavors but it doesn’t stop the teens from buying them from low key non chain stores, I say they’re more hooked now than before. Juul only has a bad rap for advertising when big Tobacco has been doing this for over 70 years, magazine ads, tv ads, mad men etc. Juul was never the problem, big tobacco just hated the competition
Juul hit my highschool like a brick back in 2017-18. The bathrooms in between class periods became juul rooms consisting of a large group of boys in a circle passing around 3-5 juuls around. No one left without a strong buzz. My friend made alot of money refilling pods. He had a large cup in his room filled to the brim with empty used pods and would buy juice online and refill them. I graduated 2018 so I don’t know what it’s like now but I’m guessing it’s worse with the fact that weed carts are a big right now.
Let's all not forget how many of our parents were smoking cigarettes since the age of fourteen or fifteen, youth will always find the products they want...
I know I started smoking at the age of 9 on a dare from a friend at school it took me from 1972 to 1996/2003 to finally quit smoking but I did finally fully quite smoking I have not even had the desire to even light up a smoke in the past 18/9 years now but I still want to know when’re me money has gone I thought I would be saving heaps after quitting but alas I picked up a lot more hobbies to keep me busy😹😹😹
My Dad started smoking when he was 7 I started 14, switched to vaping at 21 and im 26 going on 27. There was only sub ohm box mods or the refillable stick mods when I started and Kangertech was the big company. Let that sink in of how long Ive been vaping and smoked before then. I went from 12mg to 3mg in 2 years. Had a stressful situation 2 years ago, smoked for a year and a half and now on 15mg of salt nicotine. Kept my old GeekVape Aegis for when Im ready to cut my nicotine. I strongly advise againt vaping anything unless its FDA safe. Go to your local vape shop and buy some refillable juice if of legal age
I worked for Juul in Canada for over a year. They were so generous to their employees with salary, bonuses, car allowances, free lunches, benefits, perks, trips and more. It's no wonder they had to cut 80% of positions to cover costs once more regulations came. It was fun while it lasted.
@@Coz131 People have the free will to make poor decisions with their health. The problem is when these irresponsible vapers foot the bill to middle class workers by collapsing entire industries as a way to shift the issue away from their bad choices and instead put the blame on others.
@@Coz131 This is absolutely true of corporate culture. They will give you an abundance of perks so that you forget the ethical implications of your business model. They don't want you to do any deep existential thinking, they want you to bring in business. This is true for corporations like juul and the corporate lawyer firms that serve them. It's an unfortunate reality of neoliberalism, the bottom line comes before anything else.
@@gvs6462 Teenagers legally cannot make informed decisions due to the fact that they are underage. And young people think they are invincible. There is something very nefarious about a company that markets nicotine products to minors. As for adults? Go ham, you know the risks. But we all know juul's popularity skyrocketed because they were telling schoolkids to use them. That's messed up.
I’m going to be honest I knew exactly what was in it and didn’t care, the nicotine made me feel better even if it was only temporary. I still vape and smoke and will try to quit someday. I really have no one to blame except for myself and understand that my actions have consequences.
@@_Acid___ I appreciate it, if anything I can say that often people start in vulnerable times of their lives. I was incredibly depressed when I started, so I didn’t care about the consequences. The good news is that I’m young (20) so if I quit soon or now my chances of recovery are fair, I miss being able to box and swim like I used to. It’s really not worth it to start and it’s a costly habit for both your body and wallet. I’d like for others to learn from my mistakes.
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I'm a cigarette smoker, and the scale they go through to put out a ban on e-cigarettes is crazy. At the same time the big cigarette companies are still free to sell however they want, with only a warning on the package. I honestly can't wait for the day I got the strength to stop smoke
I think the “problem” they are trying to solve is awareness. There’s several cases that you can see of older smokers. In most cases, a family member is a smoker and they can see the negative effects it can have on them. On the contrary, e-cigarettes have been promoted as a “safe” alternative which is not really safe but safer than smoking actual cigarettes. That’s where the government is stepping in and making sure that Juul pays for the damage they did. The company will more than likely go under and start with a different name (or it could already be the case).
Bruh it took me months to get off cigs. I went to njoy vapes. I’m slowly backing off those now. I’m sitting here craving one right now and the only reason I don’t have one is because it’s freezing out and I don’t want to go get one. I’m gunna let this laziness ride because I’m sick of vaping but the head change helps me with all the BS of everyday life hahahhaa
It took my wife becoming pregnant and the slow realization that I will become a father for me to "quit" vaping and cigs --I only vape/smoke when I'm with my friends (which they buy and which I only see them once every few months). I wish you can find your inner strength to quit or at least slow down to a point where you don't feel guilty for doing it.
@@samuelm.7797 Well, weed doesn't seem to be nearly as dangerous or addictive as nicotine. Unless you are operating heavy machinery, then it is much much worse.
@@lauriepenner350 it can be addictive to some. There's weed smokers that and go through a "withdrawal". Although it may sound like a joke considering it's a soft drug it can assure you it is not as safe as many claim.
As much as I dislike Juul, I feel like there was a lack of personal responsibility on the parents/kids side. If we start banning products like these, it impacts the people the product was actually designed for and scares potential start ups from coming to fruition. The alcohol and tobacco industries have flavored products with similar marketing on social media. Why aren’t they persecuted? I honestly think this company got shafted big time and both parents and kids need to reevaluate what personal choice and responsibility come into the equation.
You can't ban something that everyone's already addicted to the harms been done teens would probably run to ciggarettes and some suicide would maybe be involved
both industries are absolutely persecuted, but the alcohol and tobacco industries respectively have been around for hundreds of years, there’s no way around them anymore. people will always drink and smoke, they’re a constant. hell, my mom’s been smoking since before i was born. i think the difference is that tobacco companies were already so heavily regulated and when juul came in, it was the wild west for vaping products. they said and did whatever they pleased without fda approval, which is where it gets dangerous. i have been vaping since i was a freshman in high school, i’m a senior now. i knew exactly what i was doing, i’ve tried to quit so many times but am not sure i ever will.
At the time that Juul was on the rise. I was actually in middle school, 8th grade and I was taking a health class during that year and to this day some 4 years later I still remember the dangers of vaping. We had serious discussions about it in class and for the most part, everyone agreed that it was bad. And those lessons are still being taught today.
@@danvilela to be honest 70% of the people I've met which are considered 'adult' by their age in most of cases still cannot make right decisions and act like 9 year old kids
Now where I’m at stores still sell flavored disposables but they aren’t supposed to but there a huge market for it. I used to like the mango Juul pods but once they got rid of them I just quit using them. I still get disposables once in a while I’ve never even smoked a cig before tbh and don’t plan on it.
bingo! They've now made it even harder to get vape supplies. More people just went back to smoking. But it wasnt all big tobacco, it was also the government. Taxes on cigarettes are WAY higher than on vaping. More people quit smoking and the government started losing that tax money. So they make it harder to get vaping supplies, more people end up smoking again and the government starts getting their money again.
I think part of the reason why teens were vaping so much is because they know there is nicotine, but using nicotine is synonymous with adulthood, and adulthood is synonymous with respect. If we want to stop teens from vaping, we have to recognize them as humans, with all the autonomy thereof
Or maybe because overtime that nicotine is slowly pulling them into addiction due to pure pressure from friends, a matter of rebellion, or just because they want respect
I was a heavy smoker before due to stress from work and started to feel weak due to the effects of cigarettes. Started vaping a couple of years ago and felt healthier, able to ride trails on my mountain bike again with ease. Just crazy why governments try to ban e-cigarettes. However, I do agree minors shouldn’t be vaping.
The government knew it was loosing all them tax dollars they had set up with actual tobacco, they don't care about any safety of people only the safety of their wallets...
I graduated high school in 2018, juuls took off the summer of 2017. It was popular in my school but everybody knew it contained nicotine, it's actually crazy to me that people want to blame the company when only the people who decided to vape are at fault. But hey, this is the U.S. always blame someone else instead of taking accountability
The part of the brain that is responsible for decision making is not fully developed until the age of 21. This is one of the reasons that teens make so many shitty choices, it's not really their fault
For real, I graduated in 2018 and many of my peers and I voluntarily used juul knowing the risks. These fuckers victim playing seriously gets into my nerves.
I’m 19 and never smoked. Even the smell of the cigarette and vape smoke smelt vile, which was one of the reasons why I will never plan to smoke (apart from the health problems and that they are $40 for a pack where I live)
@@piinkmochii it tastes nice and is relaxing. Paired with alcohol in a nightclub a way to describe it would be a buzz on top of a buzz (alcohol). Makes for a pretty great feeling. Yes it is addictive, but everyone already knows this. Personally I take breaks from it so my tolerance goes down and I get a high again when I go back on 5%s.
I’m not a smoker anymore and haven’t been for several years but the only thing I got out of this whole situation is that big tobacco companies like to control the market and that there’s corruption in every industry lol..huge shocker 😑
It’s sad because I don’t feel like we need to be fully blaming JUUL for this. E-cigs are still on the market and still come in array of fruity flavors. Teens can still get their hands on anything if they really wanted to these days. Vaping is a good alternative for some of us ex-cigarette smokers that are of age. It’s unfortunate that just because JUUL revolutionized and reinvented the ADULT tobacco market, that they get a bad rep and corrupt name.
Lol. Where's your brain at. They deliberately went to/marketed this bullshit to highschool students. Not to mention social media full of underage teens 🤦🏻♀️
@@Ahsukesuke i never said anything about whether they did or did not. I said it’s not fair that they are fully to blame for it. This video is absolutely bias against JUUL. The kids you’re seeing in this video aren’t just vaping on a JUUL device. This video should be titled “Teens and a vaping epidemic.”
@@TightyWhiteyTrash Kid, this video is biased AGAINST Juul. Juul had the majority of the market, therefore they and government regulators share the majority of the blame, responsibility, and accountability. Any company selling addictive andor harmful products or services should be required to fund trusts for treatment at a percentage of their gross income.
@@montithered4741 not a kid lol. I’m a grown man. And towards, against ugh you knew what I meant lol. I agree with you on the majority paying paying all that. I was making a point about something else.
@@imageez i dont think two is enough, my dad smokes a pack or 20 cigarettes a day, also i tried once and a single one dosent least for more than 5 minutes
I was a Freshman in 2017 in HS and thats when I first even knew what vaping was. I was in a bathroom with some classmates and seen what they were doing and it intrigued me. I would say it was a big thing "juuling" especially in 2018 when it came to Juuls, it seem like everybody had one and I saw money there. As some of y'all know, during 2018 you could get almost everything vape related online from sties like eBay and other websites without an ID and if it did it was really easy to go around it. One time I spent like 300$ on some vapes and juices and coils etc and would make 3x what I had spent. At one point in high school people knew who I was and try to buy from me. I was smart to who I sold to and where I did it, key reason to why I never got in trouble for doing it. For me and what I had remember late 2019 is for when Juul was not the same when it came to students having them due to the reason that the pods had very little amounts of liquid and where pretty expensive for soo little. Now 5 years later going into my sophomore year in college I think back and just smile and laugh of the times I did business with people and how things where good for me. While yes it was wrong of my part to do it I knew there was many more who did it. I never sold to anybody being their first time and never sold to freshman's. I knew plenty people who didn't care who they sold to and just cared about the money. IDK how much I made from profits but ill probably say 1.5k to 2k over the span of 3 years. I did stop in my senior year to focus on college applications and my senior project. I never got hooked to vaping and quit before my senior year and i'm thankfully I did since I don't miss it and feel lucky to not have had any health problems. Till this day I haven't picked one up and hope not to, but hey this was just a small part of my life I wanted to share.
I remember when the ban of flavored nicotine was about to happen, shops all around my area were reporting they were completely sold out of certain flavors...People started to make MASSIVE orders to have at least a few years worth of "juice". The lengths humans will go to to get their fix is incredible.
Guys, thats not weird. That’s what social media marketing does- it matches your ‘interests’ and previously watched materials with ‘something you might like.’
Im 16 and addicted to vaping. I know the risks and what nicotine is, but its the same as when our parents where smoking cigarettes when they were younger…
@@viktorreznov1548 Yup...I used to think we got away with EVERYTHING...nah, they just didn't care enough in their busy ass day. They saw plenty of dumb other things we were doing.
I was addicted to Juul and vaping in general for years. Now I’m done. Been a few years now. I was getting cracked out from vaping so much. Extremely addictive substance in it. I would panic beyond belief if I didn’t have it
Same with cigarettes! I’d walk 2 miles to the store at 4:00am in the dead of winter, during a blizzard with a giant bag of change for a pack! Hell, I’d pick up butts off the ground and smoke them if I had no other choice. It’s almost as bad as heroin, trust me!
I was a heavy smoker for decades and switched to vaping four years ago. I truly believe that this conscious and informed decision has potentially saved my life. I'm fine if government entities want to implement tight controls to discourage teen vaping, but not if it denies even one adult smoker this life-saving tool. Ready access to vaping hardware and flavored e-liquids (including online sales) is indeed key, and can easily be continued while at the same time enforcing age restriction. We need to push back against the anti-vaping propaganda. Vaping is not smoking, and vaping legal regulated products has not caused a single documented case of EVALI. I've said for years that flavor bans are not about saving teens, but instead about eliminating a threat to BIG TOBACCO!
The biggest problem this nation faces is everyone is responsible for other people's kids - just where the he'll are the parents??? Oh, that's right, their out suing everyone and everything who hurt their little darling!!!
🤣🤦🏻♀️ Be in denial lollll. You switched from cigarettes to vaping, which is equally as deadly. You wanna be dumb, it's your choice. But this shit shouldn't be marketed to children
While I do agree that we should not advertise to kids, no matter how much they try to regulate this, people are just going to find something else to smoke or use.
There was a huge period of time you'd hear nothing but Juul this or Juul that and it was everywhere. I wasn't the market for it but people in my immediate friend groups and family were and they definitely did it. To me having it in such a small form factor seemed to really help the appeal and the price seemed affordable to the alternatives but now I don't hear much about it at all.
Used to be like 10 bucks for 4 count 5% mint pods, which can last a week. Now it's $15 for 2 count, and the only flavor you get is tobacco or menthol tobacco.
Been struggling on and off smoking and vaping since the end of middle school, now I'm 21 in trade school. I also agree with JUUL they never intended to get kids hooked on nicotine. I just happened to grow up around my parents who smoked constantly, and I thought that was normal. I did not start because it's "cool" and "trendy". It's still a hard struggle trying to quit, but I'll try to stay away from cigs for a while as I have for the past few months.
Teens have always been addicted to nicotine, and the only reason there was a decline in smoking was because juul was easier to hide/smoke. It's not the companies fault, it's the consumer's fault, and it's the fault of those teen's parents.
I was a smoker of 7 years before I found juul. Got up to smoking more than a pack a day now I smoke a single juul pod every 3 days. I can workout without coughing up tar, my clothes and my car don't smell like shit, and I don't have to stand outside to smoke anymore. I have had a significant quality of life increase from Juul and I continue to be a customer 5 years later. Wish they could get Mango back though! Menthol just doesn't hit the same lol
That's because the juul is made exactly for your type, the problem is people who have never smoked tobacco might smoke juul and get addicted and eventually smoking tobacco get that nicotine fix
@@TheRandompaint It's still better for kids to juul than to smoke. There aren't more overall teen nicotine users they have just transitioned to a safer alternative. The idea that "vaping is only for people who used to smoke" totally disregards the harm reduction from kids never smoking. Adults also like flavors it's an absolutey disgusting that people have limited the freedoms of adults because Karen doesn't want to keep tabs on her kids and thinks it's the governments job to prevent her kid from vaping.
@@scar3xcr0 I understand where you're coming from but at the same time I don't know of any way they can sell to adults. Every gas station and smoke shop had juuls and I personally saw my at the time time 16 year old friends get addicted to nicotine because places sold to them no problem.
@@TheRandompaint Then they should charged the gas station owners who sell to kids. If a community has a problem their local police should do a sting operation to catch the sellers or mystery shopper style program. We don't ban alcohol because some kid gets a fake Id or finds a store owner who will sell to them. You don't get drunk from vaping and run over a family. Cigarettes are hundreds of times more harmful and they never placed the bans and limits on them that they did on vaping which is arguably the least harmful thing they could inhale. Kids are going to rebel and do substances. Vaping is literally the least harmful psychoactive substance they could be messing around with. Millions of gen z people will not get cancer because vaping out sold and undercut cigarettes.
to all the severely nicotine addicted ppl reading this comment: i was addicted from age 16-20 and it literally only took me a month to fully quit and not crave whatsoever. 22 now and my chest doesn’t hurt when i exercise, my lung capacity is crazy improved, and the money i save not buying pods/liquid/coils is really useful. excessive vaping also gave me severe hair loss, and i’m a girl, so have fun walking around looking like a medieval monk or someone’s 50 year old uncle Leroy. it’s not worth it, just quit, promise
I remember being a freshman in highschool in 2018, during Juuls peak, everyone did it and it was called juuling. Nowadays people just call call it vaping and people use a variety of brands.
I love how they talk about EVALI and how its actually vitamin E additives that caused it. Most of the EVALI cases were because people were smoking bootleg THC vapes, not nicotine vapes, this problem falls more on Marijuana legalization in my opinion, and how to deal with all the bootlegs on the market.
They make the argument that Juul was essentially the gateway product for a lot of these kids who developed EVALI, because once they were convinced that using the product was safe they could experiment with bootlegs and THC products.
@Watcher my friend collapsed a lung from evali and went back to the doctor and was like do you think it could of been covid, and he was told evali and covid are two different types pneumonias or some shit, that theory has been looked at by science guys or whatever
So how exactly does ending prohibition on one thing (weed) relate to something that is not prohibited being more prohibited? I just cannot understand the "logic" behind being a prohibitionist, is it because its the easiest answer? or the one with the least amount of thinking behind it?
@Watcher it's not covid. Like OP said, it was a common additive to dilute THC vapes. It was not used in JUUL or any common nicotine vapes. Black market vendors assumed that if it's safe on the skin, it must be safe in the lungs, but it wasn't.
as a high schooler during this period of time, everyone knew how dangerous juuls were, but no one cared. it was a temporary high and it looked cool. i always thought it was a waste of time bc the high wasn’t worth the severe addiction, i still think this way
I think many of these parents are really overrating to teens vaping, every person who I knew had a Juul never said they got it because it looked like a flash drive, they got it because it was small, convenient, and easy to hide, unlike other devices. And people who vaped weren’t trying to get others hooked either, during my freshman yeah a bunch of seniors were vaping in the Bathroom and one told me not to vape because he was going broke.
Its not the vaping itself, that they are worried about, its the addictive quality of the tobacco. If you can get it elsewhere for cheaper, or legally, its just easier. Also the legitimate cartridges are not causing those bubbling in the lung, its the cheaper black market stuff, so making it illegal is just going to make ppl smoke regular cigs because its safer than black market juul, and a lot less shit.
I remember when I was a kid and I heard about an electronic cigarette, I was so excited because I thought it would help my grandma to stop smoking. I believed they would help those who struggled with nicotine addiction. Instead, it made a whole other generation addicted
They did help me quite smoking which was really affecting my health negatively...i feel a lot better now after 3 years compare to what I was feeling before when I was smoking. Nicotine is not the problem it's the burning of paper and tobacco leaf that harm people health. However those who wasn't smoking in first should not vape it's better to stay away from those useless harmful habits. What juul did was really evil and they affected negatively the vape world 😡
cigarettes built America. The oldest generation to have ever lived grew up smoking at the age of what, 10? Even managed to prevent communism from taking over Vietnam, at least for a little bit.. so what I’m trying to say is, I respectfully disagree with this opinion of yours.
the reason why this was a main stream thing was because of its availability, if you look at other vape pod systems like the juul, the juul is the easiest one to get a hold of rather than other vape pods from famous companies such as SMOK and Geek Vape. the other reason why a lot of kids but juuls before is its ease of use. the juul has a disposable cartridge system where compared to a traditional vape you will need to keep on rebuilding the vape.
I hate the fact that e-cigarettes are getting popular in my town a lot of shops are selling them such as electronic for phones and small shops ( that sold food and drinks) are selling them and alot of the kids in my school are vaping one of my friend said that ‘vaping doesn’t kill you” and it helps the Focus
2:40 The fact that they’re trying to imply that the public was unaware of the nature of the product is ridiculous to me. At the time I was 14 and vaping juuls, I knew 5% meant 50mgs of nicotine, which is quite a lot. I was a child and completely aware. I can’t imagine anyone being unaware of the only relevant ingredient of the product.
The problems seems to be the FDA continues to target individual companies instead of the real problem. The truth is e-cigs are much less harmful and the evali crisis is mostly related to THC pens. It's good to prohibit companies from promoting and selling addictive substances to minors, but this narrative against e-cigs I don't get
Vaping is the only thing that gets me off cigarettes. I’ve been 5 years cigarettes free. No yellow teeth, no chronic coughing, no smell, and I feel much better overall. I’ve also gradually lowered the nic from 6% to 2%. They need to stop cracking down on vapes and ban all cigarettes instead.
I'm a high school and middle school teacher. The bathrooms at our schools are locked as early as 8:30 in the *morning* because students are already caught vaping. This year we had a record amount of students reporting anxiety or having anxiety attacks at random. It's not anxiety; it's withdrawal. They're vaping so much at such high intensities that their bodies can't go a few hours without a hit, and it's causing their teenage bodies to freak.
Damn that’s sad to see as a teenager it’s saddens me when I see that kinda stuff I remember when a eleven year old kid I new at school was gone for a year and I was curious as to why he was gone, his cousin who also went to that school told me how he got hooked to vaping so badly that he had to be homeschooled.
@@Danieldoomer Home schooling can actually be worse for a child. I’m cutting them off from peers and confining them to a space, if they feel the environment to them is toxic or not ideal, they’ll be prone to vaping even more as an escape. In fact, the students having the worst grades this year are students who either missed a record amount of days staying home, or were homeschooled for an entire year and then thrown back into normal schooling.
Their valuation plunged because it was oversold. People wanted a low tech easy vape that wouldn't explode. This is easier to hide versuses cigarette smoke. This was horrible research in this video, a middle school kid could have done better.
I started vaping at 16 on juul, I knew it had nicotine I just thought it wasn’t as addictive as everyone was making it out to be. Juul doesn’t deserve the blame for all of this because almost everyone I knew switched to refillable vapes before juul even banned the fruit flavors. They were too expensive for most high school kids to afford. I saw as many suorin airs as I did juuls
@@ferdtheterd3897 yeah it’s a big problem. I remember reading about a doctor who caught his son vaping and he bought him a pack of cigarettes instead because he knows they are less addictive. I still prefer vaping because it doesn’t make me smell like smoke, but there isn’t a 10 minute span where I don’t take a hit.
how long u been vaping, I've hit here n there from friends but i definitely don't plan to waste money on vapes, or even drink alcohol which is just inherently bad imo. Anyway it's not surprising that vapes are bad. Hope you don't get addicted and can quit anytime or when you notice amy health defects.
i graduated hs in 2019 and i knew lots of people who juuled. when i went to college, it was a huge issue because it was a no smoking campus, and that included vapes. even my bf who i started dating in 2019 was a juuler, he had a horrible cough and raspy voice all the time. when we got together he stopped all that because i didn’t want to be breathing it in, and then COVID in 2020-now we don’t know ANYONE who vapes. those people who had lung issues combined with covid scared the shit out of everyone. idk if it’s still an issue at high schools, but it’s definitely not a problem at my college!
Everyone in my school knew it had nictonie in it. They simply did not care. The type of person who indulges in vaping on a frequent basis as a teen is the type to not care about what they're consuming. Vaping was a sleek way to get the same effect as a cig without all the trouble. Hiding a very obvious, messy, smelly, well known pack of cigs was a lot more stressful than hiding a Juul or whatever else. Any teenager who vaped frequently would just use the " it is less harmful them cigs" as a deflection to get away with it. They knew what they were doing and what they wanted. Vaping was just an easier way towards that goal.
My friends used to smoke whenever I hang out with them, so they would usually go far away and take their break while i wait for them. They were being considerate and not allowing anyone to get the second-hand smoke. However, after they switched to vaping, it is much easier for me since I dont get second hand smoke from them. After awhile they managed to quit cigarettes and now they are doing better than ever.
I use to juul, its what got my nicotine addiction started, but now I have been nicotine free for 2 years. But I'll never forget the buzz I would get in the morning after I put a fresh pod in on a full charge and hear the crackle, there was nothing better then that lol.
I started with a Juul in highschool, but they didn’t trick me into it. I knew what I signed up for. However, it is true you go through more. I went through two juul pods a day, and at the end of my time vaping smoked the equivalent of 4 a day.
i remember almost a year ago i was looking online for cheap vapes and found a few threads about juul, i liked the idea of pods because i didn't wanna bother with coils and juices, but I'm pretty sure my country never had them, so i started doing disposables for a while glad I'm clean now
no tf they didn’t 🤨 market preference just shifted to better alternatives. The juul looked cool but it hit absolutely terrible and tasted like shit, so everyone switched.
the whole part where SF banned them but decriminalized actual drug use and the state as a whole legalized marijuana for recreational use is amazing to me.
it’s decriminalized, yes, but most counties have banned the sale and purchase of it. that’s why there’s basically no dispensaries like there are all over colorado. so sure, you can be in possession of however many grams they decided as long as you’re over 21, but however you got it was illegal.
Well... My grandpa is 90 years old today and started smoking when he was 13. I've NEVER heard of him blaming the tobacco industry for his choice to start smoking - even though there used to be a lot of ads picturing it as cool back there. This collective lawsuit (or whatever it is) against Juul is a shame for those involved. I drink a lot of Pepsi, I know it is not good for my health, but I'll never try to blame PepsiCo for it - it is my choice and responsibility to drink it or not. There are no victims of Juul. This is ridiculous.
In 2018 I bought my first juul before the age limit turned to 21, I was 18 at the time . Loved the buzz but eventually I stopped feeling it and was left with the addiction. I’m happy to say I’m 9 months off nicotine, it was hard but I’m glad I did it.
The JUUL was a hell of alot safer than the cheap Chinese ecigs we bought when I was 14. The issue isn't marketing it's that kids want to smoke and some of them NEED to to get through their day. A huge part of the issue is how stressful and ineffective that school is.
I totally agree. When I was 15 yrs old I was suffering from what i would consider pretty terrible depression due to insane amounts of pressure at school as well as my parents divorce. I would steal my dads veev (uk juul) and me and my friend would get a buncha cartridges, take boatloads of shots and go out on the streets commiting random acts on vandalism and getting our asses so high (probably the equivalent of abt 3 packs of cigarettes each) that we could barely walk home. (i was never caught for any of this)
I’m in high school and I heard a large group of kids talking about their vape pens and who the best suppliers were and the best “flavors” idk.. all I could think was that is vaping normal for teenagers because they made it sound so normal.
Juul did legit get me off cigs. I just use menthol and it being sold where cigs are sold made it easier to quit. I use menthol because I smoked menthol. I get less sick with respiratory illnesses and feel like I can catch my breath quicker than when I smoked. I'm 25 but started at 16 with cigarettes I had a pretty rough few teen years. I support any restrictions toward curbing youth use but I don't wanna lose the thing that got me off cigarettes. It's 50/50 if I'd go back to them but I feel like I very well could. It's hard to break free of nicotine and juul gave me a badly needed bandage to a problem couldn't cure. If it reduces my risks of nicotine use by even 25% its worth it to me.
Right there with ya dude.. got me off cigs and saved me from that whole mess. Just cuz kids get a hold of them, they're bad now tho, so everyone go back to cigarettes, i guess? Seems like tobacco comes out ahead in the end again..
I never went the vape route to quit, I just saw it as an extension or prologing of the addiciton. Nicotine gum and a Nicorette inhalator (the white ones shaped like a cig) worked just fine but it took a few months. Good on you for quitting.
While in highschool, I wanted a juul so bad. Kept telling myself it's cool and i won't misuse it and turn into a smoker. Now as a young adult, I'm happy I didn't get it. You see almost everyone at school had it and would puff it and post it on their stories in ig and sc. Obviously it looked cool back then. But now, looking back, it was all just peer pressure.
According to Cancer Research UK, tobacco is what makes regular cigarettes harmful. Nicotine in itself is not the harmful substance (at least healthwise), and since Juul is tobacco-free they should be fairly safe compared to regular cigarettes.
I’m in my junior year right now and I can’t walk into a bathroom without seeing at least two kids vaping. They don’t care, hell, they know damn well it’s addicting and they still do it. Right now it’s more weed cause I live in a state that has less laws on it but still, it’s very easy for kids to get anything if they really want it
Was def a juul addict in high school. All my friends were. We would go to the class we all had together and pass the juul around. I’ve quit vaping now but man. A mint pod was and still is like crack
I remember having assemblies in school about the harmful effects of drugs. Moving on to High school, I would say at least more than half of my grade at least tried smoking. Back when I graduated, you would see a lot of ppl hooked up to weed or nicotine. I would still remember having debates in class about how making certain drugs legal such as weed. We still don't have enough research about how smoking such elements affects our health. Last time I remember, those who smoked anything had some type of health problem. Those who didn't seemed to be stable. Its just common sense which people don't have.
I adore a Juul it’s so good and it literally replaced cigarettes with me for a full 33 days the most I’ve ever done since I was 15 and started smoking!
I like these "Rise and Fall" stories where the "Fall" was really just the government stepping in all the sudden and screwing up a company's business, instead of some gradual events in the marketplace or bad business decisions.
In 2008, our local mall had a kiosk selling e-cigs before the term "vaping" was commonplace, and the shop had a sign explicitly saying there was no age limit. There was also a sign saying that the pens were completely safe because they're not real cigarettes. It's like if Tesla said that their EV's made you immune to dying in a car crash, just because they're not gas-powered cars. Nicotine is nicotine.
I even see stupid high school kids now vape more saying "VAPING IS SAFER THAN CIG". Sure, but it doesn't mean it doesn't have health risks too. Sad how teenagers want to be cool so they vape now.
@@RicePho I think the vape manufacturers knew what they were doing with their product designs and slogans. Between the flavors, flash-drive/pen designs, and weaker odor compared to traditional smoke, they were practically designed to let kids hide them from their parents. Especially tech-illiterate parents who can't tell a flash drive from an SD card, let alone a JUUL.
@@NegativeReferral definitely. Like they justify vaping because it's safer and act like it doesn't have health effects. Vaping was pretty much made for helping people with a cig problem and not for people to try to get into smoke/vaping.
New products that are unregulated make all kinds of insane claims due to legal loopholes. I remember hearing about e-cigs around this time and failing to see the appeal other than not smelling like cigarettes. Granted, I was already smoking cigarettes so my sense of smell was already compromised. But I understand the appeal to kids who don't want to walk into class smelling of smoke. Also it's easier to hide than a deck of smokes and a lighter.
Not a smoker but they said a pod holds as much nicotine as a pack of cigs but like ain’t that the point? I’ve talked to co-workers who use a single pod for days and if they had a pack of regular cigs it would be gone in about a day
Yeah, exactly. It's a bit misleading of a fact to say, but you also have to put this into the perspective that teens were juul's largest base of users. The average teen probably wouldn't be juuling if they knew the facts about how much nicotine they were consuming.
This is also a good point. You can't smoke half a cig. Well, you can but it sucks. Rarely do you want to have one puff of a cigarette and then you're done, it feels like a waste. Also chain-smoking is real, especially depending on your mental state.
@@apseudonym exactly. Like with e-cigs you can take a few hits and put it away and there's no waste. I don't use juul and never have cuz they were never really popular in my country but a 10ml bottle of e-liquid lasts me like a week and is like 8 euros. It's way cheaper and more convenient.
I was a smoker during my college years and a heavy one during the first two years of working. I switched to Juul in 2019 and now stopped smoking any cigarette or e-cig after the pandemic hits. These e-cigs are designed as better alternatives for smokers (or a bridge to quit altogether), villanizing it just because a bunch of kids started to do it is dumb af.
For the ones who reads this just know this is only the beginning keep pushing, grinding, and fighting. Whatever it is in life you want to do to go after it life is to short. Life is a marathon not a sprint so go out there and live it up I hope all is well and goes well for you peace and one love.
We need a sense of personal responsibility in this matter. When a kid vapes/smokes/drinks, PARENTS SHOULD TAKE THE BLAME. The whole reasoning around Juul's marketing is also absolutly flawed. By the same reasoning, candy should be tasteless and colorless.
I dipped for two years in the military, and was able to quit cold turkey without any issue. I started Juuling in college and figured quitting would be the same. Not even close. It was much, much harder to quit.
Juul isn’t anywhere near as bad as what I was doing at school though, it’s not even as bad as the heavy cloud kind of vaping. They shouldn’t be marketing directly to kids though.
The thing is, if they cared about smoking, why don't they ban the sale of cigarettes? But they won't, cause they need to make money from it. Its so stupid.
I think for some kids it was about being cool. But nicotine, as least for me was a stress reliever. I got addicted to it in my Junior year of high school, I thought the kids who hit their juuls in the bathroom were stupid af. But during lunch I just left hung out in my car in the parking lot and vaped my stresses away. The bigger issues are small locally owned gas stations. They don't ever card, even when the ban happened there were local gas stations that wouldn't card. So I was vaping "disposable" vapes. Basically, they're cheaper than regular vapes and aren't meant to last very long. Heres the kicker. Some disposable vapes have higher nicotine concentrations than Juul pods (3%-5%). Someone managed to make these vapes called "Happy Sticks", these get around to 6.8% nicotine which is a lot higher. For roughly $10 you can hit a vape with 6.8% nicotine and if you're addicted to it, would only last 2 days max. So these kids, like myself, would spend always $40-$50 in a week on these "Happy Sticks". Whoever owns this brand, knows what they're doing because they are only sold at certain local gas stations. All the kids would be hitting these stupid pens. Its been a battle to quit... Now that I'm above the legal age. But whenever Im at a local gas station I sometimes will see these kids who clearly aren't 21 walking out with this brand name "Happy sticks."
From England so juul wasn’t very popular over here. I used juul to help me stop smoking weed everyday. And it worked so I’m thankful for that. But now I’m addicted to juul/nicotine and it’s so hard to stay away from it. Im not blaming juul for this as it served its purpose for me, but I would’ve quit months ago if I could get off it. It’s so high in nicotine and u can use it whenever, wherever
Nobody was tricked by them, they had massive warnings on the packaging as early as 2018. Every kid at my school knew about the nicotine content, they just didn't give a shit. I started smoking at 14 like an idiot and the Juul helped me get off cigarettes when I was 15, it's a good device that mimicked cigarettes better than any other alternative for its time.
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no one was tricked by juul, everyone in my highschool knew there was nicotine in it. juul definitely addicted a new generation but i really don’t think it was their evil intentions. teenagers will always find a way.
In a way they were because nobody really understood the full effect. Like they said in the video, people only knew it was less harmful than cigarettes. Again, like they said in the video, their warnings had terms that teenagers didn’t understand.
@@orksca5459 It is less harmful than cigarettes, but it doesn't take much to realise nicotine is still harmful. I don't understand why people would stop or not pick up smoking but do this instead. And also happily smoke pot too. Just stop all narcotics and be healthy.
exactly
yeah this video is bull shit, literally everybody knew there was nicotine in it and that's why they bought it!! nobody got tricked into vaping it was pretty clear what it was from the start, kids at my hs before juul became huge were already ripping box mods and cigarettes at parties a good year or two before Juul ever even came to my state. the problem is that humans just love nicotine an every generation will have their preferred method of consumption. like you said, mfs will always find a way. 200 years ago it was peace pipes and chewing tobacco, then it was cigarettes and dip, now it's disposable vapes and zyns.
its not knowing about nicotine thats the issue. its that they knowingly continued to advertise in a way that APPEALS to the youth.
As a high schooler in 2016, the kids who vaped definitely knew that there was nicotine in vapes and that it would be bad long term. They just literally didn't care. It made them look cool and that was all that mattered.
The now adults complaining that they didn't know better is a absolute joke to me.
Same now. At my school luckily only the dumb kids do it and it's frowned upon.
Who thinks vapes are cool
@@23Shimy The same people of our parents' generation who thought that smoking was cool when they were teenagers.
We need to learn from the past and make changes
not that they thinks its cool, they prolly like the buzz lmao
As someone who just graduated high school, and who has had many mods, I knew what I was doing/ getting into. You can’t tell a young generation not to do something because we will always find a way to do it.
The issue isn't telling teens not to do something.
The issue is telling teens it's safe to do something when it really isn't. That's irresponsible.
If teens really want to put junk in their system, sure, they'll find a way. But if they're presented with actual facts and not just told "it's safe," many will definitely avoid the stuff in the first place.
@@TheZaius well see the thing is, it is safe to vape, just not vape products with vitamin e acetate. Everyone already knows nicotine is addictive, and knows that breathing anything other than pure air isn't the best for your lungs, but it's a whole lot safer than smoking.
Don't do ketamine and cocaine...
@@TheZaius vaping isn’t safe but it’s not that bad for you and it’s far safer than smoking cigarettes
@@curlyhairdudeify ket and coke are lit, they’re safer than alcohol and tobacco as well
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Slightly off topic, but I remember finding an old Juul pod on the bathroom floor and assumed it was a lost flash drive (I had never seen a Juul before this). So I naturally turned it into my school's lost and found, and I ended up having to serve a detention because of it. Word spread that I "got in trouble for smoking" and in a few days, I was suddenly "popular". When I mentioned it to my family, my Grandma just sighed "It's the 50s all over again...you either smoke or you're a loser".
I want to be in the 50s for a month or so. Smoking anywhere, amazing and disgusting.
The real shock is how idiotic your school administration is.
I feel old.. :(
Was your lost and found just a box or did you have to hand it in to someone that worked at the school?
Sucks that you had to serve detention.
As a graphic designer I would just like to say their marketing and logo are ON POINTTTTTTTT branding and marketing can make or break a brand even when it's a terrible product
@@TheCannabisZone not true. juul is an excellent product, not only the marketing and graphic design, but the device itself is exceptionally well designed. sleek, nice balance and weight, simple, it feels like an apple product. and its success over its competitors is for all the exact same reasons apple has such a large market share of its market.
@@ck88777 apple didnt get a large share of the market until they gave just about every damn colleege in the USA apple computers.
well ive been doing graphics for 30+ years amoung other artistic endevours. their marketing and branding is complete and utter shit.
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY . I just stared at their JUUL logo for like 5 min. So damn nice. (graphic designer as well)
@@LastbutNotFirst uh oh expertò
I was a pack to half a pack smoker a day until juul. I switched to juul when the pandemic hit bc I knew I couldn’t afford $10 a day patiently waiting for backed up unemployment from my shut down restaurant job. I didn’t think I could do it, go from heavy religiously smoking every day to this device and get the same satisfaction from a cigarette. After a week or so I didn’t miss my morning smoke with my coffee or having to drive to get cigarettes once I was out. I than realized how bad I smelled and my belongings I constantly smoked in or near…I was finally ready to switch. Then low and behold my state issued a band on all flavor vapors and it Infuriated me because I finally was off actually tobacco. Juul helped me, I wish it wasn’t so negatively perceived but actually a godsend to smokers who choose to quit cigarettes. My state may have chosen to ban the flavors but it doesn’t stop the teens from buying them from low key non chain stores, I say they’re more hooked now than before. Juul only has a bad rap for advertising when big Tobacco has been doing this for over 70 years, magazine ads, tv ads, mad men etc. Juul was never the problem, big tobacco just hated the competition
Exactly!!!
Juul hit my highschool like a brick back in 2017-18. The bathrooms in between class periods became juul rooms consisting of a large group of boys in a circle passing around 3-5 juuls around. No one left without a strong buzz. My friend made alot of money refilling pods. He had a large cup in his room filled to the brim with empty used pods and would buy juice online and refill them. I graduated 2018 so I don’t know what it’s like now but I’m guessing it’s worse with the fact that weed carts are a big right now.
I stg every school had someone who did. This “one kid” found a juice that tasted exactly like juul mint. Dude made ab 6k in his sophomore year
Let's all not forget how many of our parents were smoking cigarettes since the age of fourteen or fifteen, youth will always find the products they want...
If they ban that just makes the black market more dangerous with fake pods etc.
I know I started smoking at the age of 9 on a dare from a friend at school it took me from 1972 to 1996/2003 to finally quit smoking but I did finally fully quite smoking I have not even had the desire to even light up a smoke in the past 18/9 years now but I still want to know when’re me money has gone I thought I would be saving heaps after quitting but alas I picked up a lot more hobbies to keep me busy😹😹😹
@@dawsie how did you quit and stop thinking about it?
My Dad started smoking when he was 7 I started 14, switched to vaping at 21 and im 26 going on 27. There was only sub ohm box mods or the refillable stick mods when I started and Kangertech was the big company. Let that sink in of how long Ive been vaping and smoked before then. I went from 12mg to 3mg in 2 years. Had a stressful situation 2 years ago, smoked for a year and a half and now on 15mg of salt nicotine. Kept my old GeekVape Aegis for when Im ready to cut my nicotine. I strongly advise againt vaping anything unless its FDA safe. Go to your local vape shop and buy some refillable juice if of legal age
I still remember smoking in thr airplane. Can u believe that? I still don't understand how we just let that happen.
I worked for Juul in Canada for over a year. They were so generous to their employees with salary, bonuses, car allowances, free lunches, benefits, perks, trips and more. It's no wonder they had to cut 80% of positions to cover costs once more regulations came. It was fun while it lasted.
They pay people good so people can be in denial of the harm caused.
@@Coz131
People have the free will to make poor decisions with their health. The problem is when these irresponsible vapers foot the bill to middle class workers by collapsing entire industries as a way to shift the issue away from their bad choices and instead put the blame on others.
@@Coz131 any thoughts on alcohol then?
@@Coz131 This is absolutely true of corporate culture. They will give you an abundance of perks so that you forget the ethical implications of your business model. They don't want you to do any deep existential thinking, they want you to bring in business. This is true for corporations like juul and the corporate lawyer firms that serve them. It's an unfortunate reality of neoliberalism, the bottom line comes before anything else.
@@gvs6462 Teenagers legally cannot make informed decisions due to the fact that they are underage. And young people think they are invincible. There is something very nefarious about a company that markets nicotine products to minors. As for adults? Go ham, you know the risks. But we all know juul's popularity skyrocketed because they were telling schoolkids to use them. That's messed up.
I’m going to be honest I knew exactly what was in it and didn’t care, the nicotine made me feel better even if it was only temporary. I still vape and smoke and will try to quit someday. I really have no one to blame except for myself and understand that my actions have consequences.
Wow I can’t even imagine being addicted to something that you know some day will harm ur body to a unreversable extent, my prayers go for you dude
@@_Acid___ nicotine isn’t harmful on its own
@@_Acid___ I appreciate it, if anything I can say that often people start in vulnerable times of their lives. I was incredibly depressed when I started, so I didn’t care about the consequences. The good news is that I’m young (20) so if I quit soon or now my chances of recovery are fair, I miss being able to box and swim like I used to. It’s really not worth it to start and it’s a costly habit for both your body and wallet. I’d like for others to learn from my mistakes.
@@_Acid___ yea it’s harmful but the effect it gives really does add too much day
@@100Mmore it is, it causes heart disease
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I'm a cigarette smoker, and the scale they go through to put out a ban on e-cigarettes is crazy. At the same time the big cigarette companies are still free to sell however they want, with only a warning on the package. I honestly can't wait for the day I got the strength to stop smoke
I think the “problem” they are trying to solve is awareness. There’s several cases that you can see of older smokers. In most cases, a family member is a smoker and they can see the negative effects it can have on them. On the contrary, e-cigarettes have been promoted as a “safe” alternative which is not really safe but safer than smoking actual cigarettes. That’s where the government is stepping in and making sure that Juul pays for the damage they did. The company will more than likely go under and start with a different name (or it could already be the case).
I think the world is bribed by cigarette companies
Bruh it took me months to get off cigs. I went to njoy vapes. I’m slowly backing off those now. I’m sitting here craving one right now and the only reason I don’t have one is because it’s freezing out and I don’t want to go get one. I’m gunna let this laziness ride because I’m sick of vaping but the head change helps me with all the BS of everyday life hahahhaa
It took my wife becoming pregnant and the slow realization that I will become a father for me to "quit" vaping and cigs --I only vape/smoke when I'm with my friends (which they buy and which I only see them once every few months). I wish you can find your inner strength to quit or at least slow down to a point where you don't feel guilty for doing it.
you can do it bro 💪🏾
In Canada, all the vape shops turned into weed stores after they legalized marijuana. Smoking tobacco suddenly seemed a lot less cool.
Is that a good or bad thing?
Weed was treated like this 40 years ago and now it’s legal…. Just as the big Tobacco companies move into weed…….
@@samuelm.7797 Well, weed doesn't seem to be nearly as dangerous or addictive as nicotine. Unless you are operating heavy machinery, then it is much much worse.
@@lauriepenner350 Can you proof it with a jurnal or article which say Weed is not dangerous that Nicotine from Tobaco?
@@lauriepenner350 it can be addictive to some. There's weed smokers that and go through a "withdrawal". Although it may sound like a joke considering it's a soft drug it can assure you it is not as safe as many claim.
As much as I dislike Juul, I feel like there was a lack of personal responsibility on the parents/kids side. If we start banning products like these, it impacts the people the product was actually designed for and scares potential start ups from coming to fruition. The alcohol and tobacco industries have flavored products with similar marketing on social media. Why aren’t they persecuted? I honestly think this company got shafted big time and both parents and kids need to reevaluate what personal choice and responsibility come into the equation.
You can't ban something that everyone's already addicted to the harms been done teens would probably run to ciggarettes and some suicide would maybe be involved
Either it's good or bad & we know what is or isn't. And if there's a doubt then you investigate, & don't use till your sure
Lack of responsibilty? Parents fought for 2 years straight to get FDA to get the product removed and older aged people couldnt even recongize it.
both industries are absolutely persecuted, but the alcohol and tobacco industries respectively have been around for hundreds of years, there’s no way around them anymore. people will always drink and smoke, they’re a constant. hell, my mom’s been smoking since before i was born. i think the difference is that tobacco companies were already so heavily regulated and when juul came in, it was the wild west for vaping products. they said and did whatever they pleased without fda approval, which is where it gets dangerous. i have been vaping since i was a freshman in high school, i’m a senior now. i knew exactly what i was doing, i’ve tried to quit so many times but am not sure i ever will.
We are all addicts to one degree or another by nature@@noahlytle5330
At the time that Juul was on the rise. I was actually in middle school, 8th grade and I was taking a health class during that year and to this day some 4 years later I still remember the dangers of vaping. We had serious discussions about it in class and for the most part, everyone agreed that it was bad. And those lessons are still being taught today.
Kids aren’t as stupid as they make their parents think, we all knew what we were doing.
yes and no.. they want to look cool, so they are idiots still
@@danvilela to be honest 70% of the people I've met which are considered 'adult' by their age in most of cases still cannot make right decisions and act like 9 year old kids
@@memorizinguniverse4247 must be meeting some weird people. Watch who you surround yourself with
true
Just like smoking nobody forced it on them
I can’t even tell you how many JUUL exclusive users switched to cigarettes after all this happened. Maybe that’s what big tobacco wanted all along???
That’s why they invested 30%
yeah that's what lobbying does
Now where I’m at stores still sell flavored disposables but they aren’t supposed to but there a huge market for it. I used to like the mango Juul pods but once they got rid of them I just quit using them. I still get disposables once in a while I’ve never even smoked a cig before tbh and don’t plan on it.
bingo! They've now made it even harder to get vape supplies. More people just went back to smoking. But it wasnt all big tobacco, it was also the government. Taxes on cigarettes are WAY higher than on vaping. More people quit smoking and the government started losing that tax money. So they make it harder to get vaping supplies, more people end up smoking again and the government starts getting their money again.
@@Pinion512 Ah yes, why would they do that and instead not include vapes as another taxed item? It doesn't make sense at all.
I can't tell you how disappointed I am in the FDA. They continue to let toxic foods, personal care, and other products stay on our shelves.
I think part of the reason why teens were vaping so much is because they know there is nicotine, but using nicotine is synonymous with adulthood, and adulthood is synonymous with respect. If we want to stop teens from vaping, we have to recognize them as humans, with all the autonomy thereof
We vape for the buzz/headrush, not because it makes us look like adults...
@@endingtasks8538 it's both things. It's something forbidden and an "adult thing"
Like coffee? Which is arguably worse for you than nicotine depending on dosage.
Omg this>>>>>>
Or maybe because overtime that nicotine is slowly pulling them into addiction due to pure pressure from friends, a matter of rebellion, or just because they want respect
I was a heavy smoker before due to stress from work and started to feel weak due to the effects of cigarettes. Started vaping a couple of years ago and felt healthier, able to ride trails on my mountain bike again with ease. Just crazy why governments try to ban e-cigarettes. However, I do agree minors shouldn’t be vaping.
taxes m8
The only way to prevent anything being used by minors is to stop producing it. They will almost always find a way to get it.
@@FreeSpirit47 that's basically like stopping the production of coffee.
being a responsible store and user is the best solution.
The government knew it was loosing all them tax dollars they had set up with actual tobacco, they don't care about any safety of people only the safety of their wallets...
@@winneves true, and it’s just sad
I graduated high school in 2018, juuls took off the summer of 2017. It was popular in my school but everybody knew it contained nicotine, it's actually crazy to me that people want to blame the company when only the people who decided to vape are at fault. But hey, this is the U.S. always blame someone else instead of taking accountability
tfw we will never hit a mint juul in our 1997 corolla with friends at our first job at a taco bell again
It’s crazy how parents don’t take responsibility anymore. So stupid 😒
The part of the brain that is responsible for decision making is not fully developed until the age of 21. This is one of the reasons that teens make so many shitty choices, it's not really their fault
For real, I graduated in 2018 and many of my peers and I voluntarily used juul knowing the risks. These fuckers victim playing seriously gets into my nerves.
@@nickislander4915 Exactly!!!!!!
I love being able to say, as a 19 year old who spent their entire life in the public school system, I have never vaped or smoked.
Healthy lung gang!
I’m 19 and never smoked. Even the smell of the cigarette and vape smoke smelt vile, which was one of the reasons why I will never plan to smoke (apart from the health problems and that they are $40 for a pack where I live)
sameeee. i still don’t get the appeal of it. that’s how i know it has to be an addiction
Me neither
@@piinkmochii it tastes nice and is relaxing. Paired with alcohol in a nightclub a way to describe it would be a buzz on top of a buzz (alcohol). Makes for a pretty great feeling.
Yes it is addictive, but everyone already knows this. Personally I take breaks from it so my tolerance goes down and I get a high again when I go back on 5%s.
I’m not a smoker anymore and haven’t been for several years but the only thing I got out of this whole situation is that big tobacco companies like to control the market and that there’s corruption in every industry lol..huge shocker 😑
💯
It’s sad because I don’t feel like we need to be fully blaming JUUL for this. E-cigs are still on the market and still come in array of fruity flavors. Teens can still get their hands on anything if they really wanted to these days. Vaping is a good alternative for some of us ex-cigarette smokers that are of age. It’s unfortunate that just because JUUL revolutionized and reinvented the ADULT tobacco market, that they get a bad rep and corrupt name.
lowering the nicrotine in all the regulated products hurts too, shit used to be decently strong and now it feels like cookies sex.
Lol. Where's your brain at. They deliberately went to/marketed this bullshit to highschool students. Not to mention social media full of underage teens 🤦🏻♀️
@@Ahsukesuke i never said anything about whether they did or did not. I said it’s not fair that they are fully to blame for it. This video is absolutely bias against JUUL. The kids you’re seeing in this video aren’t just vaping on a JUUL device. This video should be titled “Teens and a vaping epidemic.”
@@TightyWhiteyTrash
Kid, this video is biased AGAINST Juul.
Juul had the majority of the market, therefore they and government regulators share the majority of the blame, responsibility, and accountability.
Any company selling addictive andor harmful products or services should be required to fund trusts for treatment at a percentage of their gross income.
@@montithered4741 not a kid lol. I’m a grown man. And towards, against ugh you knew what I meant lol. I agree with you on the majority paying paying all that. I was making a point about something else.
Sorry kids I guess you have to smoke real tobacco.
facts lmaooo
🤣🤣🤣
At least you count how many till you stop? Like, two is enough for the day? Idk I don't know smoking thought process
@@imageez i dont think two is enough, my dad smokes a pack or 20 cigarettes a day, also i tried once and a single one dosent least for more than 5 minutes
Exactly what happened to my school 😂
I was a Freshman in 2017 in HS and thats when I first even knew what vaping was. I was in a bathroom with some classmates and seen what they were doing and it intrigued me. I would say it was a big thing "juuling" especially in 2018 when it came to Juuls, it seem like everybody had one and I saw money there. As some of y'all know, during 2018 you could get almost everything vape related online from sties like eBay and other websites without an ID and if it did it was really easy to go around it. One time I spent like 300$ on some vapes and juices and coils etc and would make 3x what I had spent. At one point in high school people knew who I was and try to buy from me. I was smart to who I sold to and where I did it, key reason to why I never got in trouble for doing it. For me and what I had remember late 2019 is for when Juul was not the same when it came to students having them due to the reason that the pods had very little amounts of liquid and where pretty expensive for soo little. Now 5 years later going into my sophomore year in college I think back and just smile and laugh of the times I did business with people and how things where good for me. While yes it was wrong of my part to do it I knew there was many more who did it. I never sold to anybody being their first time and never sold to freshman's. I knew plenty people who didn't care who they sold to and just cared about the money. IDK how much I made from profits but ill probably say 1.5k to 2k over the span of 3 years. I did stop in my senior year to focus on college applications and my senior project. I never got hooked to vaping and quit before my senior year and i'm thankfully I did since I don't miss it and feel lucky to not have had any health problems. Till this day I haven't picked one up and hope not to, but hey this was just a small part of my life I wanted to share.
Seeing the fall of Juul marked a starting point for other vape companies to take over.
I remember when the ban of flavored nicotine was about to happen, shops all around my area were reporting they were completely sold out of certain flavors...People started to make MASSIVE orders to have at least a few years worth of "juice". The lengths humans will go to to get their fix is incredible.
Did it ever get ban?
@vanishing act - the lengths parents will go to blame everyone else for what their kids do is even more incredible!
The lengths governments will go to decide on behalf of their peoples what is acceptable to consume is incredible.
Probably more to resell the pods after.
@@ferdtheterd3897 I found a Mint pod in the bottom of my desk still in it's pouch. Sold it to a buddy for 20 bucks and still got to steal a hit.
How funny. I got this video in my notifications after I watched a anti-vaping psa.
SAMEEEEE, totally weird hahaha
Guys, thats not weird. That’s what social media marketing does- it matches your ‘interests’ and previously watched materials with ‘something you might like.’
They be watching 👀
Why were you watching an anti vaping psa
i got the ad before this video
Im 16 and addicted to vaping. I know the risks and what nicotine is, but its the same as when our parents where smoking cigarettes when they were younger…
Juuls: “We didn’t intend for kids to have juuls.”
Also Juul: *Makes a colorful advertisement with kids in it*
Love how the kid acted like he didn’t know
Believe me he knew all along
Plus, we know she didn't get sick from the Juul pods, only from bootleg THC ones
The memories of charging Juuls on the school computers in front of the teacher will always be funny to me.
lol lol thats fuckin dumb
I think soon you will realize teachers didn't really care and the fact that you thought they did will be more funny.
@@viktorreznov1548 Yup...I used to think we got away with EVERYTHING...nah, they just didn't care enough in their busy ass day. They saw plenty of dumb other things we were doing.
it's not really the company's fault that kids are vaping/smoking. Blame it on their parents or the shop that is selling to teenagers.
I was addicted to Juul and vaping in general for years. Now I’m done. Been a few years now. I was getting cracked out from vaping so much. Extremely addictive substance in it. I would panic beyond belief if I didn’t have it
Same with cigarettes! I’d walk 2 miles to the store at 4:00am in the dead of winter, during a blizzard with a giant bag of change for a pack! Hell, I’d pick up butts off the ground and smoke them if I had no other choice. It’s almost as bad as heroin, trust me!
I was a heavy smoker for decades and switched to vaping four years ago. I truly believe that this conscious and informed decision has potentially saved my life. I'm fine if government entities want to implement tight controls to discourage teen vaping, but not if it denies even one adult smoker this life-saving tool. Ready access to vaping hardware and flavored e-liquids (including online sales) is indeed key, and can easily be continued while at the same time enforcing age restriction. We need to push back against the anti-vaping propaganda. Vaping is not smoking, and vaping legal regulated products has not caused a single documented case of EVALI. I've said for years that flavor bans are not about saving teens, but instead about eliminating a threat to BIG TOBACCO!
The whole idea of vaping was to get people to stop smoking cigarettes but the problem is people who have never smoked cigarettes started vaping 😂
@@TheRandompaint their whole idea went backwards XD
The biggest problem this nation faces is everyone is responsible for other people's kids - just where the he'll are the parents??? Oh, that's right, their out suing everyone and everything who hurt their little darling!!!
@@TheRandompaint oh well now they can always buy a pack of cigarettes instead.
🤣🤦🏻♀️ Be in denial lollll. You switched from cigarettes to vaping, which is equally as deadly. You wanna be dumb, it's your choice. But this shit shouldn't be marketed to children
The picket sign that reads “MANGO IS NOT A CRIME” 😂😂😂
It's never been about public health/safety. It's always been about control.
I had no idea there was a link between JUUL and PAX, they are both phenomenal at product design, they know how to make vaping look cool.
While I do agree that we should not advertise to kids, no matter how much they try to regulate this, people are just going to find something else to smoke or use.
There was a huge period of time you'd hear nothing but Juul this or Juul that and it was everywhere. I wasn't the market for it but people in my immediate friend groups and family were and they definitely did it. To me having it in such a small form factor seemed to really help the appeal and the price seemed affordable to the alternatives but now I don't hear much about it at all.
Used to be like 10 bucks for 4 count 5% mint pods, which can last a week. Now it's $15 for 2 count, and the only flavor you get is tobacco or menthol tobacco.
Been struggling on and off smoking and vaping since the end of middle school, now I'm 21 in trade school. I also agree with JUUL they never intended to get kids hooked on nicotine. I just happened to grow up around my parents who smoked constantly, and I thought that was normal. I did not start because it's "cool" and "trendy". It's still a hard struggle trying to quit, but I'll try to stay away from cigs for a while as I have for the past few months.
Teens have always been addicted to nicotine, and the only reason there was a decline in smoking was because juul was easier to hide/smoke. It's not the companies fault, it's the consumer's fault, and it's the fault of those teen's parents.
I was a smoker of 7 years before I found juul. Got up to smoking more than a pack a day now I smoke a single juul pod every 3 days. I can workout without coughing up tar, my clothes and my car don't smell like shit, and I don't have to stand outside to smoke anymore. I have had a significant quality of life increase from Juul and I continue to be a customer 5 years later. Wish they could get Mango back though! Menthol just doesn't hit the same lol
Menthol is still pretty good though. When they get FDA approval it's back on!
That's because the juul is made exactly for your type, the problem is people who have never smoked tobacco might smoke juul and get addicted and eventually smoking tobacco get that nicotine fix
@@TheRandompaint It's still better for kids to juul than to smoke. There aren't more overall teen nicotine users they have just transitioned to a safer alternative. The idea that "vaping is only for people who used to smoke" totally disregards the harm reduction from kids never smoking. Adults also like flavors it's an absolutey disgusting that people have limited the freedoms of adults because Karen doesn't want to keep tabs on her kids and thinks it's the governments job to prevent her kid from vaping.
@@scar3xcr0 I understand where you're coming from but at the same time I don't know of any way they can sell to adults. Every gas station and smoke shop had juuls and I personally saw my at the time time 16 year old friends get addicted to nicotine because places sold to them no problem.
@@TheRandompaint Then they should charged the gas station owners who sell to kids. If a community has a problem their local police should do a sting operation to catch the sellers or mystery shopper style program. We don't ban alcohol because some kid gets a fake Id or finds a store owner who will sell to them. You don't get drunk from vaping and run over a family. Cigarettes are hundreds of times more harmful and they never placed the bans and limits on them that they did on vaping which is arguably the least harmful thing they could inhale. Kids are going to rebel and do substances. Vaping is literally the least harmful psychoactive substance they could be messing around with. Millions of gen z people will not get cancer because vaping out sold and undercut cigarettes.
So it's ok to smoke, but not ok to vape?? This all seems to be a propaganda by the big tobacco companies. If you wanna ban smoking, ban it all.
it because of it addictive nature and the lies on their marketing scheme especially targeting kids or teens
@@rottingravensblood9106 man I'm a smoker myself, but this is a purely monopolist approach to silence your competitors.
@@rottingravensblood9106 freedom? 100% freedom isn’t a good thing you shouldn’t be allowed to smoke meth you shouldn’t be allowed to smoke cigarettes
@@sirspongadoodle 100% freedon is a good thing
@@sirspongadoodle If I actually own my body then I should be able to put whatever in it I want. So yes, you should be able to smoke meth.
to all the severely nicotine addicted ppl reading this comment: i was addicted from age 16-20 and it literally only took me a month to fully quit and not crave whatsoever. 22 now and my chest doesn’t hurt when i exercise, my lung capacity is crazy improved, and the money i save not buying pods/liquid/coils is really useful.
excessive vaping also gave me severe hair loss, and i’m a girl, so have fun walking around looking like a medieval monk or someone’s 50 year old uncle Leroy.
it’s not worth it, just quit, promise
@ItsViral Yep, nicotine reduces blood flow to your hair follicles + increases androgen secretion, accelerating hair loss.
I remember being a freshman in highschool in 2018, during Juuls peak, everyone did it and it was called juuling. Nowadays people just call call it vaping and people use a variety of brands.
I love how they talk about EVALI and how its actually vitamin E additives that caused it. Most of the EVALI cases were because people were smoking bootleg THC vapes, not nicotine vapes, this problem falls more on Marijuana legalization in my opinion, and how to deal with all the bootlegs on the market.
They make the argument that Juul was essentially the gateway product for a lot of these kids who developed EVALI, because once they were convinced that using the product was safe they could experiment with bootlegs and THC products.
Exactly. The kid who got EVALI surely didn't say it on cam that she vaped THC pods.
@Watcher my friend collapsed a lung from evali and went back to the doctor and was like do you think it could of been covid, and he was told evali and covid are two different types pneumonias or some shit, that theory has been looked at by science guys or whatever
So how exactly does ending prohibition on one thing (weed) relate to something that is not prohibited being more prohibited? I just cannot understand the "logic" behind being a prohibitionist, is it because its the easiest answer? or the one with the least amount of thinking behind it?
@Watcher it's not covid. Like OP said, it was a common additive to dilute THC vapes. It was not used in JUUL or any common nicotine vapes. Black market vendors assumed that if it's safe on the skin, it must be safe in the lungs, but it wasn't.
My question is why don’t they put the sane energy towards cigarettes 👏🏾
Can't. Big Tobacco is worldwide and has an army of corporate lawyers protecting them.
MONEY MONEY MONEY
They have been pushing hard against smoking in early 2000s. They’ve raised the price of a pack of cig to $5 when it was 25 cents per pack in 1965
Why should they? Let the people smoke if they want to.
@@rephaelreyes8552 uhh…1965 was a long ass time ago… everything was like 4 cents back then.
I just got shivers from being reminded of my time vaping. I even woke up and vaped before eating often which led to throwing up on multiple occasions…
as a high schooler during this period of time, everyone knew how dangerous juuls were, but no one cared. it was a temporary high and it looked cool. i always thought it was a waste of time bc the high wasn’t worth the severe addiction, i still think this way
I think many of these parents are really overrating to teens vaping, every person who I knew had a Juul never said they got it because it looked like a flash drive, they got it because it was small, convenient, and easy to hide, unlike other devices. And people who vaped weren’t trying to get others hooked either, during my freshman yeah a bunch of seniors were vaping in the Bathroom and one told me not to vape because he was going broke.
Its not the vaping itself, that they are worried about, its the addictive quality of the tobacco. If you can get it elsewhere for cheaper, or legally, its just easier. Also the legitimate cartridges are not causing those bubbling in the lung, its the cheaper black market stuff, so making it illegal is just going to make ppl smoke regular cigs because its safer than black market juul, and a lot less shit.
@@smithhoowe this comment i looking for
I cape and smoke and don't see a difference in tobacco and nicotine quality. I think people need to stop making excuses
Facts.. I vape and smoke weed (and while I enjoy it), I would never recommend either to someone who is living life perfectly fine without it.
@@smithhoowe
that was probably
their true motive
because Juul was
becoming more
popular than cigarettes 。
I remember when I was a kid and I heard about an electronic cigarette, I was so excited because I thought it would help my grandma to stop smoking. I believed they would help those who struggled with nicotine addiction. Instead, it made a whole other generation addicted
They did help me quite smoking which was really affecting my health negatively...i feel a lot better now after 3 years compare to what I was feeling before when I was smoking. Nicotine is not the problem it's the burning of paper and tobacco leaf that harm people health.
However those who wasn't smoking in first should not vape it's better to stay away from those useless harmful habits. What juul did was really evil and they affected negatively the vape world 😡
Before juuls these kids would have smoked cigarettes. Nicotine addiction isn't anything new at all.
cigarettes built America. The oldest generation to have ever lived grew up smoking at the age of what, 10? Even managed to prevent communism from taking over Vietnam, at least for a little bit.. so what I’m trying to say is, I respectfully disagree with this opinion of yours.
It did both
@@jamesaddison7592 life expectancy for smokers is at least 10 years shorter than non smokers.
the reason why this was a main stream thing was because of its availability, if you look at other vape pod systems like the juul, the juul is the easiest one to get a hold of rather than other vape pods from famous companies such as SMOK and Geek Vape. the other reason why a lot of kids but juuls before is its ease of use. the juul has a disposable cartridge system where compared to a traditional vape you will need to keep on rebuilding the vape.
I hate the fact that e-cigarettes are getting popular in my town a lot of shops are selling them such as electronic for phones and small shops ( that sold food and drinks) are selling them and alot of the kids in my school are vaping one of my friend said that ‘vaping doesn’t kill you” and it helps the Focus
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The fact that they’re trying to imply that the public was unaware of the nature of the product is ridiculous to me.
At the time I was 14 and vaping juuls, I knew 5% meant 50mgs of nicotine, which is quite a lot. I was a child and completely aware. I can’t imagine anyone being unaware of the only relevant ingredient of the product.
Honestly these people think we are apes
Exactly they know what their doing
Ev knows nic is addicting we jus don’t care💀
The problems seems to be the FDA continues to target individual companies instead of the real problem. The truth is e-cigs are much less harmful and the evali crisis is mostly related to THC pens. It's good to prohibit companies from promoting and selling addictive substances to minors, but this narrative against e-cigs I don't get
Vaping is the only thing that gets me off cigarettes. I’ve been 5 years cigarettes free. No yellow teeth, no chronic coughing, no smell, and I feel much better overall. I’ve also gradually lowered the nic from 6% to 2%. They need to stop cracking down on vapes and ban all cigarettes instead.
I'm a high school and middle school teacher. The bathrooms at our schools are locked as early as 8:30 in the *morning* because students are already caught vaping. This year we had a record amount of students reporting anxiety or having anxiety attacks at random. It's not anxiety; it's withdrawal. They're vaping so much at such high intensities that their bodies can't go a few hours without a hit, and it's causing their teenage bodies to freak.
Damn that’s sad to see as a teenager it’s saddens me when I see that kinda stuff I remember when a eleven year old kid I new at school was gone for a year and I was curious as to why he was gone, his cousin who also went to that school told me how he got hooked to vaping so badly that he had to be homeschooled.
@@Danieldoomer Home schooling can actually be worse for a child. I’m cutting them off from peers and confining them to a space, if they feel the environment to them is toxic or not ideal, they’ll be prone to vaping even more as an escape. In fact, the students having the worst grades this year are students who either missed a record amount of days staying home, or were homeschooled for an entire year and then thrown back into normal schooling.
@@Blast2224 Ya that’s what I think as well I just hope the kid is doing well now it’s been several years since that happened.
Their valuation plunged because it was oversold. People wanted a low tech easy vape that wouldn't explode. This is easier to hide versuses cigarette smoke. This was horrible research in this video, a middle school kid could have done better.
I started vaping at 16 on juul, I knew it had nicotine I just thought it wasn’t as addictive as everyone was making it out to be. Juul doesn’t deserve the blame for all of this because almost everyone I knew switched to refillable vapes before juul even banned the fruit flavors. They were too expensive for most high school kids to afford. I saw as many suorin airs as I did juuls
The problem is vapes actually have more nicotine than cigs
@@ferdtheterd3897 yeah it’s a big problem. I remember reading about a doctor who caught his son vaping and he bought him a pack of cigarettes instead because he knows they are less addictive. I still prefer vaping because it doesn’t make me smell like smoke, but there isn’t a 10 minute span where I don’t take a hit.
@@sharksarecool1733 man you just proved your own point wrong
If a product is sold at 18 and over. It's not their fault that kids are getting it other ways and using it
how long u been vaping, I've hit here n there from friends but i definitely don't plan to waste money on vapes, or even drink alcohol which is just inherently bad imo. Anyway it's not surprising that vapes are bad. Hope you don't get addicted and can quit anytime or when you notice amy health defects.
i graduated hs in 2019 and i knew lots of people who juuled. when i went to college, it was a huge issue because it was a no smoking campus, and that included vapes. even my bf who i started dating in 2019 was a juuler, he had a horrible cough and raspy voice all the time. when we got together he stopped all that because i didn’t want to be breathing it in, and then COVID in 2020-now we don’t know ANYONE who vapes. those people who had lung issues combined with covid scared the shit out of everyone. idk if it’s still an issue at high schools, but it’s definitely not a problem at my college!
Everyone in my school knew it had nictonie in it. They simply did not care. The type of person who indulges in vaping on a frequent basis as a teen is the type to not care about what they're consuming. Vaping was a sleek way to get the same effect as a cig without all the trouble. Hiding a very obvious, messy, smelly, well known pack of cigs was a lot more stressful than hiding a Juul or whatever else. Any teenager who vaped frequently would just use the " it is less harmful them cigs" as a deflection to get away with it. They knew what they were doing and what they wanted. Vaping was just an easier way towards that goal.
My friends used to smoke whenever I hang out with them, so they would usually go far away and take their break while i wait for them. They were being considerate and not allowing anyone to get the second-hand smoke. However, after they switched to vaping, it is much easier for me since I dont get second hand smoke from them. After awhile they managed to quit cigarettes and now they are doing better than ever.
I use to juul, its what got my nicotine addiction started, but now I have been nicotine free for 2 years. But I'll never forget the buzz I would get in the morning after I put a fresh pod in on a full charge and hear the crackle, there was nothing better then that lol.
Yes that was the best feeling...so crazy how addicting the little thing was. Congrats to you for quitting 👏🏼
I started with a Juul in highschool, but they didn’t trick me into it. I knew what I signed up for. However, it is true you go through more. I went through two juul pods a day, and at the end of my time vaping smoked the equivalent of 4 a day.
i remember almost a year ago i was looking online for cheap vapes and found a few threads about juul, i liked the idea of pods because i didn't wanna bother with coils and juices, but I'm pretty sure my country never had them, so i started doing disposables for a while
glad I'm clean now
teenagers realized how stupid they looked vaping and quit
no tf they didn’t 🤨 market preference just shifted to better alternatives. The juul looked cool but it hit absolutely terrible and tasted like shit, so everyone switched.
lol no they all smoke disposable vapes now Boomer
Ok boomer
It’s annoying as F!!
They grow up and find something stronger.
the whole part where SF banned them but decriminalized actual drug use and the state as a whole legalized marijuana for recreational use is amazing to me.
Why is that so amazing? Juul are arguably much worse than marijuana and other drugs
Decriminalising drug use has been actually really successful in places like Portugal….
it’s decriminalized, yes, but most counties have banned the sale and purchase of it. that’s why there’s basically no dispensaries like there are all over colorado. so sure, you can be in possession of however many grams they decided as long as you’re over 21, but however you got it was illegal.
@@bgfb77 hahaha wtf, how is Juul worse than other drugs? Worse in what sense? No one is dying from Juul.
Well... My grandpa is 90 years old today and started smoking when he was 13. I've NEVER heard of him blaming the tobacco industry for his choice to start smoking - even though there used to be a lot of ads picturing it as cool back there. This collective lawsuit (or whatever it is) against Juul is a shame for those involved. I drink a lot of Pepsi, I know it is not good for my health, but I'll never try to blame PepsiCo for it - it is my choice and responsibility to drink it or not. There are no victims of Juul. This is ridiculous.
Wait, so you are in favor of cigarette companies advertising to kids?
@@clockworklullaby8295 Lmao comparing cigarettes to juuls
@@clockworklullaby8295 So you are against free market and liberty?
We really like Rise and Fall, can you make more videos?
In 2018 I bought my first juul before the age limit turned to 21, I was 18 at the time . Loved the buzz but eventually I stopped feeling it and was left with the addiction. I’m happy to say I’m 9 months off nicotine, it was hard but I’m glad I did it.
totally worth it.
Woo congrats 👏 definitely worth it
Air breather gang owoo
I bought it when I was like 12,I felt cool,after week I sold it.
2000 baby?
The JUUL was a hell of alot safer than the cheap Chinese ecigs we bought when I was 14. The issue isn't marketing it's that kids want to smoke and some of them NEED to to get through their day. A huge part of the issue is how stressful and ineffective that school is.
I totally agree. When I was 15 yrs old I was suffering from what i would consider pretty terrible depression due to insane amounts of pressure at school as well as my parents divorce. I would steal my dads veev (uk juul) and me and my friend would get a buncha cartridges, take boatloads of shots and go out on the streets commiting random acts on vandalism and
getting our asses so high (probably the equivalent of abt 3 packs of cigarettes each) that we could barely walk home. (i was never caught for any of this)
@@ManaWarev2 When I was that age you could still buy vapes and vape juice on ebay no questions asked, kids are going to do dumb shit not matter what
I’m in high school and I heard a large group of kids talking about their vape pens and who the best suppliers were and the best “flavors” idk.. all I could think was that is vaping normal for teenagers because they made it sound so normal.
Imagine if the government had this much interest in alcohol its much more dangerous substance than vaping nicotine or smoking weed
Exactly
Juul did legit get me off cigs. I just use menthol and it being sold where cigs are sold made it easier to quit. I use menthol because I smoked menthol. I get less sick with respiratory illnesses and feel like I can catch my breath quicker than when I smoked. I'm 25 but started at 16 with cigarettes I had a pretty rough few teen years. I support any restrictions toward curbing youth use but I don't wanna lose the thing that got me off cigarettes. It's 50/50 if I'd go back to them but I feel like I very well could. It's hard to break free of nicotine and juul gave me a badly needed bandage to a problem couldn't cure. If it reduces my risks of nicotine use by even 25% its worth it to me.
E cigs were actually was created as a healthier alternatives for smokers.
Right there with ya dude.. got me off cigs and saved me from that whole mess. Just cuz kids get a hold of them, they're bad now tho, so everyone go back to cigarettes, i guess? Seems like tobacco comes out ahead in the end again..
Actually, vapes are more detrimental to the human body than cigarettes are…
I never went the vape route to quit, I just saw it as an extension or prologing of the addiciton. Nicotine gum and a Nicorette inhalator (the white ones shaped like a cig) worked just fine but it took a few months. Good on you for quitting.
You’re probably intaking more overall nicotine actually, but it’s easier on your lungs most likely
While in highschool, I wanted a juul so bad. Kept telling myself it's cool and i won't misuse it and turn into a smoker. Now as a young adult, I'm happy I didn't get it. You see almost everyone at school had it and would puff it and post it on their stories in ig and sc. Obviously it looked cool back then. But now, looking back, it was all just peer pressure.
wow you're so insightful🙄
@@jacobferdinand7480 whatever
According to Cancer Research UK, tobacco is what makes regular cigarettes harmful. Nicotine in itself is not the harmful substance (at least healthwise), and since Juul is tobacco-free they should be fairly safe compared to regular cigarettes.
I’m in my junior year right now and I can’t walk into a bathroom without seeing at least two kids vaping. They don’t care, hell, they know damn well it’s addicting and they still do it. Right now it’s more weed cause I live in a state that has less laws on it but still, it’s very easy for kids to get anything if they really want it
Was def a juul addict in high school. All my friends were. We would go to the class we all had together and pass the juul around. I’ve quit vaping now but man. A mint pod was and still is like crack
"At the same time cigarette sales are on the rise for the first time in 20 years"............This says it all......
I remember having assemblies in school about the harmful effects of drugs. Moving on to High school, I would say at least more than half of my grade at least tried smoking. Back when I graduated, you would see a lot of ppl hooked up to weed or nicotine. I would still remember having debates in class about how making certain drugs legal such as weed. We still don't have enough research about how smoking such elements affects our health. Last time I remember, those who smoked anything had some type of health problem. Those who didn't seemed to be stable. Its just common sense which people don't have.
I adore a Juul it’s so good and it literally replaced cigarettes with me for a full 33 days the most I’ve ever done since I was 15 and started smoking!
Its so much fun trying to get cancer!
I like these "Rise and Fall" stories where the "Fall" was really just the government stepping in all the sudden and screwing up a company's business, instead of some gradual events in the marketplace or bad business decisions.
that same goverment unbanned their products for 3B dollars
In 2008, our local mall had a kiosk selling e-cigs before the term "vaping" was commonplace, and the shop had a sign explicitly saying there was no age limit. There was also a sign saying that the pens were completely safe because they're not real cigarettes. It's like if Tesla said that their EV's made you immune to dying in a car crash, just because they're not gas-powered cars. Nicotine is nicotine.
I even see stupid high school kids now vape more saying "VAPING IS SAFER THAN CIG". Sure, but it doesn't mean it doesn't have health risks too. Sad how teenagers want to be cool so they vape now.
@@RicePho I think the vape manufacturers knew what they were doing with their product designs and slogans. Between the flavors, flash-drive/pen designs, and weaker odor compared to traditional smoke, they were practically designed to let kids hide them from their parents. Especially tech-illiterate parents who can't tell a flash drive from an SD card, let alone a JUUL.
@@NegativeReferral definitely. Like they justify vaping because it's safer and act like it doesn't have health effects. Vaping was pretty much made for helping people with a cig problem and not for people to try to get into smoke/vaping.
Nicotine is the reason juul surpassed cig in sales
New products that are unregulated make all kinds of insane claims due to legal loopholes. I remember hearing about e-cigs around this time and failing to see the appeal other than not smelling like cigarettes. Granted, I was already smoking cigarettes so my sense of smell was already compromised. But I understand the appeal to kids who don't want to walk into class smelling of smoke. Also it's easier to hide than a deck of smokes and a lighter.
No matter what the fda does to juul , juul will still be a legendary mark in the vaping industry
the way she said they were tricked made it sound like cigarettes aren’t addictive. she claimed that it was the worse nicotine
Not a smoker but they said a pod holds as much nicotine as a pack of cigs but like ain’t that the point? I’ve talked to co-workers who use a single pod for days and if they had a pack of regular cigs it would be gone in about a day
Yeah, exactly. It's a bit misleading of a fact to say, but you also have to put this into the perspective that teens were juul's largest base of users.
The average teen probably wouldn't be juuling if they knew the facts about how much nicotine they were consuming.
This is also a good point. You can't smoke half a cig. Well, you can but it sucks. Rarely do you want to have one puff of a cigarette and then you're done, it feels like a waste. Also chain-smoking is real, especially depending on your mental state.
@@apseudonym exactly. Like with e-cigs you can take a few hits and put it away and there's no waste. I don't use juul and never have cuz they were never really popular in my country but a 10ml bottle of e-liquid lasts me like a week and is like 8 euros. It's way cheaper and more convenient.
@@linusmlgtips2123 The average teen defintely knows how much nictotine they are consuming. They arent dumb.
@@benarchie6024 go look at some studies because you'd be surprised
I was a smoker during my college years and a heavy one during the first two years of working. I switched to Juul in 2019 and now stopped smoking any cigarette or e-cig after the pandemic hits. These e-cigs are designed as better alternatives for smokers (or a bridge to quit altogether), villanizing it just because a bunch of kids started to do it is dumb af.
Its all about the tax money the government gets from tobacco cigarettes. They just make up the reasons so people don't quit smoking altogether
For the ones who reads this just know this is only the beginning keep pushing, grinding, and fighting. Whatever it is in life you want to do to go after it life is to short. Life is a marathon not a sprint so go out there and live it up I hope all is well and goes well for you peace and one love.
We need a sense of personal responsibility in this matter. When a kid vapes/smokes/drinks, PARENTS SHOULD TAKE THE BLAME.
The whole reasoning around Juul's marketing is also absolutly flawed. By the same reasoning, candy should be tasteless and colorless.
I dipped for two years in the military, and was able to quit cold turkey without any issue. I started Juuling in college and figured quitting would be the same. Not even close. It was much, much harder to quit.
Exactly I can quit when I want to if i didn’t have my car in the driveway tempting me to go drive to the store
i vaped for a couple a months but quit after i found it harder to breath in the gym never found it tht hard to quit tho, odd
@@Teddu- is ur breathing in the gym normal now?
@@jaydenk5281 Not sure ab normal, i still get kinda drained from shit but tht may or may not be from vaping not sure but def alot better
@@Teddu- ahh ok but the effects r not permanent rigjt
Juul isn’t anywhere near as bad as what I was doing at school though, it’s not even as bad as the heavy cloud kind of vaping. They shouldn’t be marketing directly to kids though.
@@ShootBigBucks I mean like the vaping everyone was doing a few years back.
I'd argue the Juul is worse than the heavy vapor one. by far - coming from someone who has tried both. there's a reason the juul is so addictive
Heavy cloud vapes are 0.3% nicotine tho 😅
Doesn't matter. Around 20% of people will be smoking. Rather a puff of cloud than dying of cancer.
@@TheLumbologist yeah but nicotine isn’t by itself much of a problem, it’s everything else.
The thing is, if they cared about smoking, why don't they ban the sale of cigarettes? But they won't, cause they need to make money from it. Its so stupid.
Vaping in highschool is mostly to fit in and then once you start it’s pretty addicting but I’ve used mine way less recently during covid
I think for some kids it was about being cool. But nicotine, as least for me was a stress reliever. I got addicted to it in my Junior year of high school, I thought the kids who hit their juuls in the bathroom were stupid af. But during lunch I just left hung out in my car in the parking lot and vaped my stresses away.
The bigger issues are small locally owned gas stations. They don't ever card, even when the ban happened there were local gas stations that wouldn't card. So I was vaping "disposable" vapes. Basically, they're cheaper than regular vapes and aren't meant to last very long.
Heres the kicker. Some disposable vapes have higher nicotine concentrations than Juul pods (3%-5%). Someone managed to make these vapes called "Happy Sticks", these get around to 6.8% nicotine which is a lot higher. For roughly $10 you can hit a vape with 6.8% nicotine and if you're addicted to it, would only last 2 days max. So these kids, like myself, would spend always $40-$50 in a week on these "Happy Sticks". Whoever owns this brand, knows what they're doing because they are only sold at certain local gas stations. All the kids would be hitting these stupid pens.
Its been a battle to quit... Now that I'm above the legal age. But whenever Im at a local gas station I sometimes will see these kids who clearly aren't 21 walking out with this brand name "Happy sticks."
I can't believe they didn't make an advert where it says it's time to JJJJJJJ JUUL you left money on the table with that one.
I imagine it sounds just like the Yu Gi Oh intro 😂
@@sambridges4670 latterly what I was about to say 🤣
From England so juul wasn’t very popular over here. I used juul to help me stop smoking weed everyday. And it worked so I’m thankful for that. But now I’m addicted to juul/nicotine and it’s so hard to stay away from it. Im not blaming juul for this as it served its purpose for me, but I would’ve quit months ago if I could get off it. It’s so high in nicotine and u can use it whenever, wherever
Nobody was tricked by them, they had massive warnings on the packaging as early as 2018. Every kid at my school knew about the nicotine content, they just didn't give a shit. I started smoking at 14 like an idiot and the Juul helped me get off cigarettes when I was 15, it's a good device that mimicked cigarettes better than any other alternative for its time.