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Old Dec 23, 2015 | 01:16 PM
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Surely it's drug addiction by another name? yet there are the ads, prime time.
Disgusting.
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Old Dec 23, 2015 | 01:21 PM
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Do you complain about everything? lol
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Old Dec 23, 2015 | 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by alcazar
Surely it's drug addiction by another name? yet there are the ads, prime time.
Disgusting.
Agreed (some what worryingly). You can't advertise cigarettes because they are addictive and bad for you, yet vaping which is also addictive (and maybe bad for you) is fair game.
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Old Dec 23, 2015 | 01:39 PM
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1. Loop hole..its not smoking (i.e burning tabacco). So it is legal - you can vape where you like, although some places do ban it - its not because of any law.Same with advertising

2. Law changes take forever to be passed through parliment. Our policticans only turn up for work during PM's questions to have a childish boo and jeer (payed for by the tax payer).

The bigger criticism though is the morals of TV channels that allow it to be advertised.


I for one want to see it taxed and regulated. Mainly because stuff comming in from China could contain anything. I don't want it banned though as really this is a better alternative to smoking (apart from giving up).
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Old Dec 23, 2015 | 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by JGlanzaV
Do you complain about everything? lol
I was thinking the same thing......I'm amazed at all his moaning posts, its relentless..!
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Old Dec 23, 2015 | 04:36 PM
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I'm retired, have little energy, am in fairly constant pain, so cannot even read as much as I'd like, am bored silly by TV...so have little else to do.

Any other questions?
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Old Dec 23, 2015 | 04:51 PM
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Got to agree about them being advertised, shouldn't be allowed, moan over
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No one is going to start vaping who doesn't already smoke
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Old Dec 26, 2015 | 06:05 PM
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And you know that because? I saw two eight year olds doing it in town last week, OSTENTATIOUSLY puffing away outside W H Smiths.
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Old Dec 26, 2015 | 06:13 PM
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And you know that they don't already smoke cigarettes?
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Alcohol, thats okay though? Because thats not a drug and it's not addictive?
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Originally Posted by alcazar
And you know that because? I saw two eight year olds doing it in town last week, OSTENTATIOUSLY puffing away outside W H Smiths.
Did you ask them how old they are?
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Old Dec 27, 2015 | 05:03 AM
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Have to agree with the masses here, no kid is going to think vaping is cool..

Walking the dog in the park every morning I walk past the same school girls smoking and when I say girls I mean 13 ish .. makes my stomach turn. How can anyone start smoking these days? it's just stupid.

You'd assume they were easily influenced but could I get them to come see my puppies.
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Old Dec 27, 2015 | 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by TECHNOPUG
No one is going to start vaping who doesn't already smoke
Originally Posted by pimmo2000
Have to agree with the masses here, no kid is going to think vaping is cool..
You would be very, very wrong there.
What started out as a fad picked up by Reddit-browsing, fedora-wearing perma-virgins has gone "mainstream" and now there is a huge culture of vaping to be cool.....modifying their "rigs" to produce bigger clouds etc, competitions, online forums......its pathetic.


With a bit of luck in ten years time they will all have some horrible lung disease and I will laugh my *** off.
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Old Dec 27, 2015 | 10:50 AM
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Did I ask how old? No.

Does the wife work in a Primary school and can gauge a kid's age? yes.

And one of my points is that vaping is BECOMING cool just by being advertised.

Plus, it's like, "Look at me...you can't do anything about this!"

It needs banned on TV, end of.
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Old Dec 27, 2015 | 02:33 PM
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[QUOTE=David_Dickson;11775402


With a bit of luck in ten years time they will all have some horrible lung disease and I will laugh my *** off.[/QUOTE]


NICE!!!

Really shows what a nice guy are............

JFYI its actually VG and no nicotine is used.......and no i dont do it or a member of any cloud chasing forum as it does not interest me.

IMO yes maybe pathetic , maybe a bit like car forums, pics of cars, my car is 400hp.........well mine is 500hp. Lets spend 30k on a rice burner to try and make it something it will never be, is that pathetic too?. Pics of engines.........wow look at my 5" exhaust.

Each to their own is my point, but to wish something like that and find funny, there is a 50% chance it will happen to you as it will me.........lets hope no one laughs their *** off at you at that time when it comes..........which more than likely will.

Merry Christmas
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Old Dec 27, 2015 | 03:08 PM
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LoL. Upset on the internet.

"Really shows what a nice guy are............"

Im not. Im happy to confess to being an arrogant, self-centred cvnt with a very dim view of.....well...pretty much everybody else.


You can poke your Merry Christmas.
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Old Dec 27, 2015 | 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by David_Dickson
LoL. Upset on the internet.

"Really shows what a nice guy are............"

Im not. Im happy to confess to being an arrogant, self-centred cvnt with a very dim view of.....well...pretty much everybody else.


You can poke your Merry Christmas.
I know it shouldn't, but that made me smile, for all the right 'wrong'? reasons
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