#vapists

[burningonyx]

Coining a new term: Vapists. Alternate term for people who vape. I coined it because it rhymes with rapist, and they're basically raping my lungs and my body with their shit.

[markmarcarian]

#vapists https://www.instagram.com/p/BwHq9dRHW1Q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1w08hl8j8kaze

[submitabug]

The Juul fad is far bigger than I ever would have guessed

In just a few years, vaping has wiped out two decades of work getting teens to quit (or never start) cigarette smoking. In 1997, the survey recorded that 36 percent of 12th graders had smoked in the past 30 days. This year, the combination of vaping and cigarette use hit 34 percent.

Meanwhile: Juul just got a $2 billion dividend payment from its new investor Altria. It decided to give that money to employees.

$2 billion from Altria Group, Inc. (aka Philip Morris Companies). Depending on how this is split among the 1500 employees, there’s a potential $1.3MM split per person.

So Juul's move is helping the company win the talent wars. It's also helped the company win the news cycle. Up until recently, most of the news about the company had to do with federal regulators accusing Juul of selling its product to minors, creating an addiction to nicotine and possibly affecting their brain development. Last month, the company closed down its Facebook and Instagram accounts and stopped selling its mango, fruit, creme, and cucumber pods in retail stores, in a bid to reduce teenage usage ahead of potential governmental action.

Now that the professionals with experience covertly marketing to children are involved, expect less effective oversight. And while you’ll likely hear people say that it’s not as bad as smoking; in many cases, it’s actually much worse. Designed to be deliberately so in some ways.

So, fun. Good job everybody.