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alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前

Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation

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Sunak proposes raising smoking age every year to create 'smoke-free' generation

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alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 年前
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Rishi Sunak has proposed raising the smoking age every year in a move welcomed by health charities but criticised by those in the tobacco industry.
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    My 13-year-old daughter already has friends who vape. That’s how insidious it is and how deeply embedded in the public consciousness nicotine-based products are.

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      Most kids aren’t vaping anything with nicotine in it. Most are vaping 0mg juices and trying to look cool blowing clouds. Nicotine isn’t a super addictive chemical, it’s about as addictive as caffeine. Smoking cigarettes and vaping are habit forming, it’s why almost all smoking cessation forms fail multiple times for people.

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        I just quit vaping like a week or two ago and it was fucking miserable for a week straight. Caffeine isn’t nearly as bad when I’ve quit that, but nicotine withdrawals are fucking horrible and they feel like they last forever.

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          Congrats on quitting. That took a lot of determination, I’m sure.

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          I quit caffeine and it took me 2 weeks of shakes and fevers to get over it. The withdrawals were horrible. I smoke cigars and pipe tobacco regularly and quit every winter with no issues.

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        Why do you think nicotine is not very addictive? I saw several studies that called it a highly addictive substance (for example this review about e-cigarettes). By the way, the review is overall very interesting and worth reading.

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          Nicotine is on the same level of addictiveness as heroin and cocaine lol.

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            That sounds like some D.A.R.E. bullshit. If that’s the case then I’d be perfectly fine trying heroin once because I won’t get addicted to it. I’ve tried nicotine a few times, now, and I have less than zero interest in trying it again. You can make your point without being hyperbolic

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              You probably wouldn’t get addicted to heroin on the first try… Have you never taken opiate painkillers? Were you immediately addicted after your first dose? Sounds like DARE failed you as well.

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                You do not get the same high with nicotine as you do with heroin. It’s a bullshit lie told to kids to keep them from smoking. So many of you seem to have swallowed this crap hook line and sinker.

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                  And you’ve demonstrated that you don’t understand what addiction is or how it works. Its not about the strength of the high you mope its about how the chemical interacts with your brain

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          https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100713144920.htm

          Nicotine is about as addictive as caffeine. It sucks but the habit is what causes people to stay addicted. It’s why nicotine replacement treatments don’t work, and why vaping has a way higher success rate of getting people to stop than anything pharma companies have come up with.

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            links single paper supporting point amongst the hundreds that refute it

            paper is written by a guy on the payroll of a tobacco company

            Lmfao.

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            The review study I linked says vaping doesn’t have higher success rate when it comes to stopping.

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        Most kids aren’t vaping anything with nicotine in it. Most are vaping 0mg juices and trying to look cool blowing clouds. Nicotine isn’t a super addictive chemical, it’s about as addictive as caffeine.

        The FDA would disagree.

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          Yes the same FDA who pushes for NRT…the same NRT that have people failing to quit…and committing suicide while on them…also no where in your link does it show what mg kids are vaping.

          https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28850065/

          ASH surveys showed a rise in the prevalence of ever use of e-cigarettes from 7% (2016) to 11% (2017) but prevalence of regular use did not change remaining at 1%. In summary, surveys across the UK show a consistent pattern: most e-cigarette experimentation does not turn into regular use, and levels of regular use in young people who have never smoked remain very low.

          1% is what your looking at for kids that get addicted to vaping…

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        Nicotine is highly addictive. Nice try Mr. Big Tobacco.

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          https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100713144920.htm

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        What evidence do you have that this is not detrimental to their health and development? Because as far as I know, no major studies have been done.

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          Are you asking if nicotine is bad for you or ???

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        Thanks, troll, for mixing valid points with blatant bullshit.

        Also caffeine is neurotoxin.

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          https://www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/nicotine--no-more-harmful-to-health-than-caffeine-.html

          https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100713144920.htm

          I mean I can back up my claims. This isn’t rocket science. Most kids in the smoking years (50-00s) started smoking to look cool and older…hell there are even studies that show most people hate it at first.

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            https://www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/nicotine--no-more-harmful-to-health-than-caffeine-.html

            I didn’t compare harm, I was saying that caffeine is very useful neurotoxin. Meanwhile nicotine is completely useless at best.

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              https://www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-publishes-independent-expert-e-cigarettes-evidence-review

              there is much public misunderstanding about nicotine (less than 10% of adults understand that most of the harms to health from smoking are not caused by nicotine)

              https://www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/nicotine--no-more-harmful-to-health-than-caffeine-.html

              Tobacco contains nicotine along with many other chemicals, but nicotine by itself is fairly harmless.

              https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/nicotine-the-wonder-drug

              Studies by Quik and others involving rats, mice and nonhuman primates have since found similar effects. In short, by driving dopamine, nicotine appeared to ease the tremors and tics caused by Parkinson’s, and even the movement disorder induced by the major Parkinson’s drug.

              https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8078469/

              Nicotine for Alzheimer’s disease

              Want me to go on?

              Nicotine isn’t the harmful drug the anti-tobacco groups have you believing.

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                there is much public misunderstanding about nicotine (less than 10% of adults understand that most of the harms to health from smoking are not caused by nicotine)

                Soooo? We were talking specifically about nicotine and caffeine, not smoking and drinking coffee. Burning organic compunds is very nasty ofc. Again “it is useless at best”.

                Tobacco contains nicotine along with many other chemicals, but nicotine by itself is fairly harmless.

                See. Useless at best.

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