My grandad was a heavy smoker until he had a piece of lung removed apparently and gave up straight away. His son and my Dad smoked until his early 60s when a blood clot in a limb related to smoking. He was sent by the GP to the hospital to get checked out. He took a quick smoke of one of his cigars before going in. When he came out he was an ex smoker. Shortly later he had a bypass on his limb due to the clot but he was an ex smoker from when the consultant told him what he had. Never smoked since.
So that is two generations who smoked and gave up without any issues after a health scare. One lived for another 50 years and the other is still alive about 20 years or so after giving up. As to me? I never even started, just had no interest at all!! Of course I am the one who has breathing issues due to asthma that developed in my 40s. Perhaps I should have smoked??!!!! Joking. TBH I do wonder if cycle commuting and the pollution involved might have been a factor in my asthma.
Now as a complete non smoker and asthmatic I am 100% opposed to smoking and vaping in any public situation. That is not likely to happen. As vapes were first coming out as a thing was it 10 years ago? A guy at work kciked off when the directors banned vaping inside along with smoking. He swore that they could not do that as vaping inside was not illegal. He got told in no uncertain terms that he had to vape outside or walk out the factory and not come back. Not sure of the legalities of that but the owner/directors would do that no matter what.
I think vaping is the smoking of modern times and it will come out as a bigger health risk than made out. The thing that annoys me the most is the smoking outside rail station doors. My work end of the line ocne had 30 people hanging around and vaping by the door. It was a cloud of vape smoke. A little away from them there was a guy smoking tobacco. Apparently the vapers had sent him packing, I guess they didn't want his unhealthy smoke!!!
I read once that in China, where most of the vapes sold here come from I once heard, has banned all flavour vapes except menthol and do not allow them to be anything but plain packaging. However they send so many vape flavours and oils over here, with all vapes in child friendly colour ranges!! Ifeel they should ban flavours and make them all identical packaging of the vape, i.e. no colour, same shape vape and one small size. I also think they should have health warnings on the packaging too. In fact I would not have an issue if they were treated as prescribed treatment to give up smoking and banned otherwise. I know I have a hard line view on this but I hate them as much as tobacco. We get then in train stations and even trains. I have been stuck in the confined space of a train carriage with an asthma attack developing due to some idiot vaping or having vaped in the carriage. I have seen the ticket checker threaten someone with calling the police to throw him off the train at the next station if he didn't stop. He took a couple of puffs blowing it out in the ticket guy's face then put it away. He didn't stop just took sneaky puffs instead.
Sorry for this long diatribe against vapers.
He doesn't mess about.
