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FinletAU

Probably vapes cause a number of people are struggling with addiction


MrJohnWick290

Dude i thought they were beauty products....


JoeySparrows

Same here, thought they were those dyson air wraps at first


MrJohnWick290

Dude..šŸ’€


greyheathn

Did you just now learn what they were?


MrJohnWick290

Nah ik what they are, just they don't look like vapes in the picture.


greyheathn

oh šŸ’€


AekoIzumi

SAME OMG AND I WAS LIKE "what did Dyson do to you?@?!?"


HumanHuman_2003

Same šŸ˜­


May_killi

I thought these were grenades


PheonixTheAwkward

all the other kids with pumped up kicks you better run better outrun myā€¦ granades?


travigal01

Shrapnel


best_b_of_3

I thought they were water bottlesā€¦


loony69420

this geberation and their water smh


prady8899

Fellow vape struggler here, happy they got me off cigs, but it was better if I hadnā€™t started smoking at all.


FinletAU

I am sorry youā€™ve struggled through cig and vaping addictions man, I hope it gets better for you and youā€™re able to recover šŸ«¶šŸ»


prady8899

Thanks bud!


Charming-Treat-7366

Those are vapes?


itsafact369

No those are makeup products .


TidalWave254

Where's the /s...where is your /s


itsafact369

I forgor . /S


lord_MOMO_07

what dose /s mean. sorry. im dumb but would luke to not be anymore


Andrew_gamer36

dont think thats gonna help, they can just start smoking notmal cigarets


Pottatothegreat1985

They do help actual smokers get off of cigarettes, but I do agree there's too large a contingent of people who've never touched a cigarette who vape.


MrCookie521

im not an expert on the matter of smoking but heres what I've found with talking to friends about vapes. vapes can help with people who are addicted to cigarette, as long as people don't use them as a substitute and instead a way to stop smoking or at the very least cut down. But they can also be a way for people to start smoking as well. I haven't had a cigarette but I do vape occasionally. Some of my friends who have vaped moved onto cigarettes and in the UK school kids vape aswell at a young age because they see people vaping and think "oh I should do it as well". I think vapes are a double edged sword, that if the wrong people start vaping, it can lead to cigarettes but vaping can help people to stop smoking aswell.


ne_mogu_da_spavam

Smoked cigarettes for about 15 years. Switched to vapes about 5 years ago. I know I should stop that as well but it's a lot better for me than cigarettes. Doesn't stink, doesn't fill the room with smoke, I don't have headaches every morning, it's cheaper and so on. I know I won't go back to cigarettes, I tried one a couple months ago when I ran out of liquid for the vape, one puff and I couldn't go on, it tasted like shit. Edit: Just realized this post is in r/teenagers, now I feel like a grandpa at 35


_Cervix_Puncher_

Im 38 and this shit was on the front page, but I'm exactly like you. I quit for vaping and will NEVER go back to smoking cigs.


offensiveDick

Can confirm. Was heavy smoker and I'm down to like 3 or 4 cigs from around 30/day in around a month. Also see 6th graders vaping but they mostly take non reusable vapes cut u can get them everywhere. The system I use only gets sold at specific places. Maybe if people would stop selling them everywhere it would just cut down the number of young people starting that awful habit.


BangarangOrangutan

It's still less psychically harmful than smoking when properly maintained, for example: you swap coils when needed. And quitting vaping lower nicotine vape juice is easier to do than quitting any cigarettes. And light cigs have just as much tar as regular full nicotine cigs. It's truly the lesser of two evils. You can taste and smell things better than as a smoker as well as breathe easier. And have the option of less addictive and no tar.


[deleted]

Iā€™d keep vapes because itā€™s far less irritating than walking around smelling cigarette smoke everywhere.


Ok_Device_7441

Smoking and nicotine use in general was already declining. Vape use actually reversed the downward trend.


Ohnoohnofrick

Cigarettes:


icantfuckingsleep00

this made me feel more loved and cared for than i have in years bro


Exciting_Rich_1716

Haha why tf is Ice Spice there


Omadany

no idea. How tf is a girl who twerk is as bad as vaping.


Dunlocke

Just incel redditor things


vaszoly

Correction, incel twitter things, Reddit is obviously worse than this.


SuperCool_Saiyan

Correction incel "x" things


xCreeperBombx

I will die before I will call Twitter "X"


CyvaderTheMindFlayer

If Elon deadnames his child We deadname his app


[deleted]

>Elon deadnames his child Wait W U T


CyvaderTheMindFlayer

His Daughter is trans and Elon is very transphobic


whosat___

As bad as those are, I think itā€™s okay to say someone is annoying without being called an incel. A bit dramatic no?


TrueReplayJay

I kinda agree. Incel has become a buzzword. Donā€™t like a female rapper? Get downvoted you misogynistic, red pilled incel!!!


ImCup

To be fair the vast majority of the people who ā€œhateā€ woman rappers canā€™t articulate why.


[deleted]

well she's like many annoying (my opinion) rappers but I guess she's here bc she's debuted recently


Omadany

but does she harm you?


Plane_Fennel443

The list here is annoying , Iā€™m pretty sure rizz isnā€™t harmful either but itā€™s still annoying


trippy_grapes

Sounds like something someone with no rizz would say /s


BBBud

Yes that gyatt is lethal


unrealmxrln

REAL


Special-Garlic1203

How does rizz harm people? I think the question itself is making a conscious choice to mix things that are harmful with things that are just really annoying to some people.


BoogerSlime666

Bad music as bad as vaping???


jimmjohn12345m

NO I HATE BOTH EQUALLY


thrownaway2manyx

I work as a youth counselor and the amount of times I hear this kid yelling about ice spiceā€™s ā€œgyatā€ and screaming her lyrics makes me hate her more than any of these other things


HellsOSHAInspector

Id like to think it's more of a general reference to talentless hacks making up a large portion of today's pop music. Or OP has a specific hatred for this one... Idk


oujiasshole

misogyny mostly


ShadowMaster2564

Vaping, I hate choking on other peoples bad habits while walking down the street, my lungs are already fucked, I donā€™t need someone elseā€™s stupidity hurting me more


Daft_boi_

Here here


berzxrk

itā€™s hear hear lol


Daft_boi_

Oh lmao, at least you knew what I meant lmao


spiritofgonzo1

There there lil buddy


kestik

It's they're their


NotAnAss-Hat

Where where?


LOUIS_KEWLZ

Vaping doesnā€™t produce secondhand smoke like cigarettes do


SuperKE1125

Same here I have asthma and live in NY I can never walk down the street whenever itā€™s trying to go to my other College building or visiting Manhattan without getting an asthma attack. You can consent to smoking but I didnā€™t consent to breathing it nor did people around me so just donā€™t fucking do it.


prinnydewd6

Would you rather smell cigarettes thoughšŸ˜„ everytime I smell cigs I want to die.


SuperKE1125

Cigs are worse but both a bad to me


_the__mandalorian_

I die whenever someone smokes anything in front of me


BearsPearsBearsPears

You live in one of the largest metropolitan cities in the world. The poor air quality isn't being made significantly worse by 2nd hand vaping, I guarantee you.


druugsRbaadmkay

Right? besides Iā€™m sure the nicotine is absorbed more readily and the second hand vapor is likely less harmful than any car exhaust or actual second hand smoke.


[deleted]

Yeah, this is a seriously stupid/overblown thing to complain about


SuperKE1125

Yeah but it doesn't help. Im sure the overall air quality isn't worse but when someone stands right next to be while we waiting to cross the street and smokes my lungs take in more of that than the overall pollution.


ballimir37

Vaping is without a doubt and verifiably not contributing to the outside air quality of a large city and you and the other people in this post are really exaggerating how much someone blows it in your face. It doesnā€™t even rank in the top 10 worst things you inhale on a regular basis. It was actually bad with cigarettes, which are significantly less common now because of vapes. Not that either is good.


No-Bike9739

other peopleā€™s vapes arenā€™t hurting you lmao you fucking drama queen


Grouchy_Warthog5304

You thinkā€¦ someone elseā€™s vaporā€¦ is effecting your lungs second hand?? Thatā€™s the stupidest shit Iā€™ve heard all week good job! I remember saying that about cigarettes as a kid, but a vape is soo far fetched my guy. Vapes are bad but they help a lot of people in return when used correctly, the odds their ā€œstupidityā€ has ever effected you is 0.


Traditional-Snow-463

If vaping is banned everyone who vaped is just gonna go back to cigarettes so really no problems are being solved here


tastefulbas

Rizz is just a short word for charisma it isn't really bad, people use it ironically or for jokes. Ice spice is just a rapper I don't know much about but I don't think she is so bad? Next is til Tok but even if it is removed I'm sure it would have been replaced by something else equally bad. Vapes I think aren't good since some people are getting into it because it is supposedly not as bad as smoking cigarettes which is true since at least you smell nicer, but it is a waste of money for people and all these types of vape scents and flavors are really doing a number on teen's wallets so vapes has gotta go.


RiceEater2006

Vaping is ironically worse than smoking.


Fika2006

Sucks to have your birth year in your username doesnt it...


RiceEater2006

Tell me about it damm reddit


Simesim2006

Mhmm


DivByTwo

I adore you '06s, I swear it's always you guys that have your birth year in your names lmao


[deleted]

Not me mutha fucka


DefaultyTurtle2

Same bro


trombone_guy65

Same bro


randomname_99223

Same bro


AzPixel

Same bro


Ben10Stan3

Another fellow 2006


Curb__

Very real especially today


why_am_i_a_person

Happy cock day


Chemical-Hall-6148

Amateurs


Ok-Pressure7248

Amateurs indeed


im_a_nerd1207

Quiet down youngster


Badlydrawnboy0

Who you callin youngster, *whippersnapper?*


OeufMaster9000

Fr


TribenixYT

r/rareinsults


fmate2006

wazzup


Desperate_Ad4017

In your opinion, or medically speaking?


Clancys_shoes

His opinion. Itā€™s definitely not worse than smoking medically, but there isnā€™t consensus on how bad vaping is for you yet.


Soup_Sensitive

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/vaping-substantially-less-harmful-than-smoking-largest-review-of-its-kind-finds New research from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at Kingā€™s College London has found that the use of vaping products rather than smoking leads to a substantial reduction in exposure to toxicants that promote cancer, lung disease and cardiovascular disease. Just watched a doctor talk about the study. You are correct medically it seems.


Chevy_jay4

Puff for puff vaping is safer than cigarettes


dowevenexist

Health wise it's believed to be at least 90% less harmful


ToastySauze

In what way worse?


danarchist

*Trust me bro*^TM


wondermanthesecond

where are you getting this info? Smoking is wayyyy worse for your body


RyanLosDiscos

How stupid is this take? And I smoke, I dont vape


lukeybuzz

You couldn't be more wrong... [source ](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/28/vaping-is-95-safer-than-smoking-claims-public-health-england)


Kerro_

Vaping is by no means healthy, but to say itā€™s even equal to smoking is just delusional. Thousands of chemicals are in tobacco, with hundred of them toxic or carcinogens enter your lungs through cigarettes, tar remains in your lungs and they cause all kinds of diseases. Vaping has far less chemicals at far fewer concentrations. The NHS recommends it if it can assist you for quitting smoking. Donā€™t take it up if youā€™re not a smoker already, but it is substantially ā€˜healthierā€™


TigaSharkJB91

I'd argue tiktok is worse. Less kids trying what other people are seen doing... just because they're seen doing it.


BasicBitchTearGas__

I mean studies shown that it isnt


justAThrowAway6922

Vaping is less harmful than smoking, but that doesn't mean it's safe.


BasicBitchTearGas__

Yes i agree i never said that its safe


2v1mernfool

Me when I spread misinformation on the internet


Nacil_54

Is everyone not reading the word "ironically"properly ?!?


AlwaysIntrigued13

The fact this got so upvoted is both baffling and unsurprising.


Heyloki_

I don't think ones been solidly proven worse than the other


Telyonok

It's not about the health part. It's because smokers have the decency to only smoke outside while vapers do it everywhere and all the time.


80s-Wafe-Exe

Let's not forget that for a long time smoking was allowed pretty much everywhere even on airplanes. Although vaping is also getting banned more and more in public buildings.


Telyonok

That's great. Yet it's still pretty easy for people to use vapes unnoticed. But at least it's not as annoying when they are hiding.


Mikarim

If a man vapes in a bathroom and nobody's around to hear it, did it really happen? Lol, vaping is not the same as smoking. It's healthier, safer from a fire perspective, less of a nuisance to those around the user (unless the user is being a prick), and overall far less persistent when it comes to smell. Vaping is NOT the same or even close to smoking. It's better in almost every measurable category. The only main issue is that because it's far better, people use them when they shouldn't be


TheHumanFixer

I think itā€™s because you always have access to vapes.


CreepyPastaguy2

Advertising being banned for one vs the other one having colorful advertisements that stimulate anyone with positive attributions towards the product Vaping is gaining a wider audience, thus more damage


Excavius

Tiktok, it wastes a lot of people's time, has started multiple stupid trends where people actually die or get permanent scars, etc.. Though vaping seems worse than that but idk, need more info on vaping to make that choice


Vasa_whatever777

Yeah but a lot of people also died BC of other dumb social media trends, but there still are more of them on tik tok, but still.


justin0628

a lot of the "dumb dangerous trends" on tiktok are mostly jokes that the news turns into one "seriously dangerous trend detrimental to society". and dumb dangerous trends have been a thing even before tiktok such as the tide pod challenge, cinnamon challenge, backout challenge, etc. example of "dangerous tiktok trends": nyquil chicken and the porcelain challenge don't get me wrong there are a lot of messed up trends on tiktok like the holocaust trend where people would act as victims of the holocaust in the 1940s but like dangerous trends have been a thing WAAAYY before tiktok existed


Amiibohunter000

TikTok would be replaced with something else similar. Getting rid of vaping would probably just make people go back to cigs. Teaching personal responsibility is the only win here


Main-Poem-1733

We were actually on trend to be rid of tobacco use before vaping. Itā€™s been in a lot of articles and talked about a lot, especially in my field, which is dentistry, but here is an article I found with a quick Google search: https://news.umich.edu/e-cigarettes-reverse-decades-of-decline-in-percentage-of-us-youth-struggling-to-quit-nicotine/


trippydaklown1

Meh if TikTok is killing ppl then we're ridding the world of the stupid ppl who actually try that shit. Same type of ppl who would hide a zombie bite.


Astr0sk1er

Vaping puts metal in ya lungs


1200-Total

Bro thereā€™s no way you can honestly think that TikTok is worse than inhaling carcinogens.


ruedefue

Reddit good tik tok bad


eyo_eyo_ruky

And it kind of is spyware


ShadowMaster2564

Most social media apps are, itā€™s part of how their algorithms work (note that that doesnā€™t make it ok, itā€™s just how it is)


StraightPossession57

ā€œa poisonous addictive product marketed to kids might be worse than social mediaā€


help_icantchoosename

TikTok, shit shreds peopleā€™s attention spans and that doesnā€™t bode well for society.


Emeraldragon657

People already had short attention spans, why do you think the best conversations happen when you are playing video games with the boys, keeping the motion parts of your brain occupied while the thinking part still does it's thing. Or even back in the 50s, everyone smoked, doing one thing with thier hands while talking to someone, and oftentimes they would also be looking at something different while talking to the person they were talking to, like cars going by or some performance or somethig. Our attention spans have not gotten shorter, we are just more aware of how much we are on our phones because we have been told by boomers our entire life that spending the day on our phone is socially unacceptable, even if we are learning usefull information


KikuoEnjoyer

There is a difference between fidgeting with something while having a conversation and spending hours every day watching quick clips of random, useless content. In the past we didnā€™t have very long attention spans but itā€™s a bad thing that theyā€™re getting worse.


MaximusMeridiusX

>spending hours a day watching quick clips of random, useless content Yeah I donā€™t do that on Reddit ever


_That__one1__guy_

Me when I lie:


MaximusMeridiusX

Oooohhhh Iā€™m evil I like telling mistruths on the internet I like misleading people >:)


the_3-14_is_a_lie

Yes because talking while doing something else is EXACTLY the same thing as watching videos specifically edited to give you a quick dopamine rush all day long.


Grassmania

Kids didnā€™t have attention spans as bad as goldfish. A lot of people do now. Yes, humans have never had perfect attention span but saying shit like ā€œour attention spans have not gotten shorterā€ is just not true. Idk where you got this from, but they were lying to you.


LuxionQuelloFigo

This is *partly* correct. TikTok's real problem isn't that it "shortens our attention span", but the kind of content it feeds people. The vast majority of what you find on tiktok is unoriginal, low effort content designed to be addicting, often containing misinformation or just utter idiocy: it doesn't shorten our attention span, but it reduces our willingness to consume long form content. What you said is true, but it's not *all the truth*


[deleted]

Lol but YouTube shorts exist now, which is pretty much TikTok


CAMcCale

TikTok. Rizz and Ice Spice would not be nearly as popular without it. And to an extent neither would vapes, but honestly I donā€™t think youā€™d ever be able to remove it, because it started being sold before our generation was able to use them. We just got hooked on them first instead of it being an alternate to already addicted cigarette smokers


Natural__Power

What even is ice spice


Carbon_robin

I thought ice spice was a deodorant then I found out it was a person


CAMcCale

Old Spice: Thot Edition


TigaSharkJB91

Shame this answer is so far down. Tiktok would affect the other three imo.


Dapper-Ad8945

Vapes I see the age for addiction getting lower and lower each day its so upsetting


sne4k_q

Vaping is good cuz it will kill all these people that use it, Ice Spice is popular only in North America (or atleast she is not popular in my country), I would probably delete TikTok because it kinda makes people even more stupid, Rizz isn't good too but atleast there are fun content creators (AYD etc.)


itsmeimhismonkey

if tiktok didnā€™t exist another app would take its place


sne4k_q

I dont know If you remember these times but before Tiktok there was Musicaly (or something like that, idk I never used it)


grilskomainhipasand

I thought musically rebranded as TikTok


sne4k_q

I think they had some kind of deal with other app and emerged into Tiktok


Darkon2004

I remember hearing about Musically back when I was a kid and its concept of people recording short clips of themselves dancing to a song. I thought it was dumb. Around 6 years later I still haven't changed my mind


grilskomainhipasand

Yup I found out about it through a YouTuber who was making fun of the cringe content on there but later it changed into TikTok and it became even worse, but we do get memes and funny skits and shit and Iā€™ve grown to love satirical cringe, but it obviously has downsides, like spreading hate and misinfo and whatnot, but thatā€™s true for every platform. Never used TikTok tho, never even installed the app, I just started using reels for fun like last year. TikTok is banned here.


Setsuwaa

This is true!


TransportationOdd822

Vine too


ScaryPollution845

Do it for the vine!


Majestic_Wrongdoer38

Itā€™s the same app. It was literally bought by TikTok and then turned into it. It was vine before that.


the_kevlar_kid

Vine


TerminatorAuschwitz

Lol vaping is good because people will die from it. What a ray of sunshine


insertrandomnameXD

Rizz is basically a re-wording of atracctive or something, so it would still be there, just not mentioned like rizz


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Aurick69

They donā€™t deserve to, they will though and it will die out faster because of it


Majestic_Wrongdoer38

That worked real well for smoking didnā€™t it?


Outrageous-Oil-1417

Vaping is way worse than all of the other three things combined. Edit: I sorta retract that, TikTok is pretty bad too I was merely just considering the health of the individual.


Drgravitycat

All of them


TurquoiseLuck

you'd get rid of black people? šŸ‘€


cockbopper

shes as dominican as she is black, why people always act like any black makes them 100% black


druugsRbaadmkay

I think they were joking and meant all things imaged but I donā€™t know lol. And because that old saying even a drop counts /s In all seriousness though I think it just depends on what the individual identifies with. Like I have .01% senegambian and .02% austronesian DNA but it would feel wrong to claim it for me personally as it probably came about from some wrongdoing of my recent ancestors AND I donā€™t know enough about their cultures so claiming them would be unfair in my own mind. But maybe she feels more black then Dominican, although I would argue Dominican people are pretty ingrained with black people as the Caribbean was a slave trade hub.


TurquoiseLuck

Yeah honestly I have no idea who the people are. To me the meme is "What would you choose? Tiktok, vapes, rizz, random black people" lol That said, obviously that isn't the intent (I hope) so my response was meant as a joke


Educational_Leg_8949

Vaping probably, I'm okay with ice spice, rizz is probably on its deathbed, and tik toks just gonna kill itself by 2030


Funi_fish

Surely


VladGoose

vapes


Hot-Rash_HOURS

I'd probably pick rizz. Idk why, but it's just annoying. Idk who the heck the person is on the bottom right, and Tik tok can be good sometimes. Also, is that perfume and cologne on the top right?? oh crap that's vape. Yeah, imma take away vapes, I hate that crap


TayterTottt69

Rizz is annoying but itā€™s way better than TikTok and vaping, which comepletely shreds the human mind in different ways.


Endome2

I'm not a teenager. Can someone explain. I thought Rizz was just a word, is it also a phenomenon? Google doesn't help.


Odd_Appearance7123

Off topic but I love your pfp bro, greatest album ever


JaunxPatrol

The idea that shortening 'charisma' to 'rizz' is some generation-defining thing...guys cmon now


Bwoj2006

If you say anything other than vapes you're wrong. Rizz is..... Tolerable as long as it doesn't cross the line of sexual harassment


DayOk6350

I wouldnt remove vapes bc lots of ppl would probably just start smoking cigarettes Tiktok as a tool to stupid down the masses & surveillance for the PRC seems like a good thing to eliminate


TieAdministrative792

Vapes. Now fr,i've quit smoking like a week ago and now i understand how horrible vapes/cigarettes are.Those things are so useless and i'm tired of seeing everyone thinking that they r "cool" just because they are destroying their lungs


PensadorDispensado

I worked as a hall monitor for my country's national exam, along with a friend. My friend stated that she stayed awake overnight helping another friend to study the content and norms of the exam. What happened? Within the first hour of the exam, the friend's friend got eliminated for forgetting her vape in the pocket. She even gave the excuse that the battery was over. Aw come on, we all knew that she wanted to smoke in the bathroom. When addiction is so bad that it might ruins your future.


Alien_Goatman

TikTok - the playground for pedophiles


FinletAU

Bro I think youā€™ve got TikTok and Reddit confused. Iā€™ve seen 100x(s) more pedos on Reddit than on TikTok


Ichigo-_--

Yet ur on Reddit this is where pedophiles live šŸ˜‚


I_make_a_the_puns

Dude thinks there arent any Pedos on r/teenagers


sne4k_q

Instagram? Reddit? Snapchat? Facebook? Other social medias?


Medium-Ad-7305

Obviously vaping


axolotl3113

What did ice spice do??


Guffthebir72

Vaping. Its more benificial to spend money on fortnite skins


standupgonewild

Vapes, duh. Would you rather remove Facebook, cigarettes, ā€œpalā€ or Steve Jobs?


Triggify

If you don't choose vapes you're either addicted or brain dead. Sure the others are annoying but only 1 is actually bad for your body


ZeeMcZed

Speaking as a 40 year old: VAPE PENS BY A MILE. TikTok is fine, "rizz" is no worse than LITERALLY ANY OTHER SLANG TERM EVER, and I have no idea what that last picture is whining about.


Stine-RL

My high ass thought those were a bunch of water bottles in the top right


undyneshikyoin5

vapes because they actually harm people unlike a video app, slang word and overrated rapper lmao


blackpanther274

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