In the US vaping is illegal under 21, and my state even universally banned flavored vape juice when I was in high school. Yet every public HS bathroom in the fucking country still smells like artificial mango or blue raspberry or whatever
I’m in uni and I swear half my generation is in the 1950s when it comes to nicotine. It’s literally the first drug most middle or high schoolers try, before even alcohol or weed, just bc some kids carry it in their backpacks/pockets EVERYWHERE and offer their friends a hit in the school bathroom
On the plus side it acts as febreeze when someone’s taking a shit
I had my first cigarette in middle school. It was kinda awful and low key kept me away from nicotine for a while. It wasn’t until college that nicotine really sunk its teeth in and I think part of that is due to early vapes and hookah.
Still, I shudder to think about what health condition I’d be in if vapes weren’t an option and as mentioned, hookah has been around the whole time adding flavors to nicotine and making it “cool”
It feels like smoking/nicotine is ubiquitous in the late teens, early 20’s but it drops off hard by the time your social circle starts hitting 30. College age is peak nicotine use
In the US vaping is illegal under 21, and my state even universally banned flavored vape juice when I was in high school. Yet every public HS bathroom in the fucking country still smells like artificial mango or blue raspberry or whatever
I’m in uni and I swear half my generation is in the 1950s when it comes to nicotine. It’s literally the first drug most middle or high schoolers try, before even alcohol or weed, just bc some kids carry it in their backpacks/pockets EVERYWHERE and offer their friends a hit in the school bathroom
On the plus side it acts as febreeze when someone’s taking a shit
I had my first cigarette in middle school. It was kinda awful and low key kept me away from nicotine for a while. It wasn’t until college that nicotine really sunk its teeth in and I think part of that is due to early vapes and hookah.
Still, I shudder to think about what health condition I’d be in if vapes weren’t an option and as mentioned, hookah has been around the whole time adding flavors to nicotine and making it “cool”
It feels like smoking/nicotine is ubiquitous in the late teens, early 20’s but it drops off hard by the time your social circle starts hitting 30. College age is peak nicotine use