Why Do People Still Smoke And Not Vape?

Let’s consider a hypothetical situation – What if I tell you about a consumer product that is totally legal to purchase and use, and if used regularly, it would expose you to carcinogens, tar, ash and disgusting smell and generate a high probability of causing fatal diseases and will probably lead to your early demise. Would you still buy it? Well, people do. It’s Cigarettes. Millions of people buy it and smoke everyday. Even though we’ve already discovered the most successful way to stop smoking

• Vaping.

My father tells me that when he attended Medical School, there was a lot of buzz around smoking and it’s effects and people were actively talking about it. He remembers going to the hospital while assisting doctors who’d smoke while checking up on patients. The head of Pulmonary disease department was a chain smoker and eventually died from Lung Cancer.

The Surgeon General at the hospital was a revered personality and he started a movement of sorts to get Cigarette advertisements banned and to have a warning about the health implications of cigarettes on every pack. He urged people to quit smoking now. When this goal was accomplished, my father continues to tell me that he and his batchmates thought that smoking is gonna meet it’s end soon… that the days of cigarettes were over. My father was an active campaigner against tobacco usage.

He understands and explains to me how his generation underestimated tobacco and nicotine addiction. He has lived a life seeing people dependent on cigarettes everyday, he has tried to convince them to quit and saw them die from Lung Cancer. Initially, he recounts, lung cancer was something that exclusively got to men but with tobacco conglomerations effectively wooing women in the 1960s, lung cancer cases amongst women increased rapidly. He feels it’s terrible that most death that cancer claims are through lung cancer, among both men and women. What incentive do people need to finally quit smoking?

Numerous studies and research projects related to cigarette smoking were carried out all over the world over last five decades and massive data was generated around the health implications of smoking tobacco over considerable lengths of time. Research also revealed that people who start smoking are mostly addicted to their potentially habit really quick so the safety measure is to never start in the first place. The world then tried to figure out why youngsters were attracted to smoking even though all this data was out in the public? The highest growth rate amongst smokers of all age has been seen among the young population between 16-24 years of age. Stopping them early is the easiest way to quit smoking which is otherwise spreading so fast.

Smoking is really expensive - both literally and figuratively. Cigarettes are costly and the cost keeps on rising. It’s not like medical services for ailments caused due to smoking are any less expensive. Insurance companies charge more money from smokers. It is bewildering as to why people would pay heavily for both, harming themselves and seeking help.