How The Rise of Vaping Has Changed the World
Almost everybody is now aware of the trend of vaping. In fact, it probably should no longer be described as a trend, as it has been around in mainstream culture for as long as smartphones. It also seems to have the same longevity in terms of the people who are using the products, and the people who are switching to using them from smoking cigarettes.
Whether you believe that vaping is a good thing or not, and whether you have tried it or do not like the idea of it, it is no secret that it has had a big impact on society in some subtle and some are obvious ways. Here we take a look at how vaping has changed the world around us.
New Options For Smokers To Help Overcome The Habit
The most obvious impact that vaping has had on society is that it offers a new method for people to quit smoking cigarettes. A lot of people struggle with giving up smoking using normal methods that were around before electronic cigarettes, such as nicotine patches and gum. This is because although these methods replace the nicotine drug itself, they do not replace the habits that many smokers have formed around cigarettes. The psychological addiction can be much harder to break than the physical one.
When people vape instead of smoking cigarettes, they are inhaling water vapor rather than smoke. While it has not been completely proven whether this is harmless, it is widely thought to be significantly less harmful than smoking tobacco.
Because vaping feels more similar to smoking than any other form of nicotine replacement therapies, it enables people to break down their habit at a later date than just getting off of the nicotine drug itself. It is possible to reduce the amount of nicotine used in vape liquids down to zero without experiencing any withdrawal symptoms as you do it. Yet, you still have the experience of having something to do with your hands and mouth, and the habits that you may have formed around smoking such as having a cigarette after dinner, or when you first get up in the morning, can be replaced by the act of using your electronic cigarette instead.
For a lot of people who have unsuccessfully tried to quit smoking using other methods, the advent of vaping was good news as it offered a new smoking cessation method that could potentially allow them to keep their habit, or at least deal with it at a later time rather than dealing with missing their cigarette breaks while they are also missing the nicotine in their bloodstream.
A Less Antisocial Situation For Nicotine Addicts
As most people accept that vaping is less harmful, at least to the people around the person using the device, than smoking, there is a lot less stigma around using electronic cigarettes around other people than there is around smoking tobacco. Another element to this is that vapor from the electronic cigarettes tends to smell much better than tobacco smoke to non-smokers and so they do not feel as upset about people using the devices around them.
This is good news for everyone because smokers have for a long time suffered from a stigma around them being antisocial, and non-smokers have had to put up with being surrounded by people who do something they see as harmful and invasive. The rise in vaping has meant that people at parties no longer have to go outside for cigarettes in little groups but can do something as an alternative that does not have as much of a stigma attached to it and is not as problematic for the people around them. Unlike cigarette smokers, people who vape tend not to feel like social pariahs when they go out. They are also less likely to have unwanted attention from people they don't know who feel that they need to berate them smoking near them.
A Whole New Culture Based Around Technology
A more subtle way that vaping has changed the world around us is that there is a whole culture that has grown up around it. There are no internet forums where people discuss the brand of cigarette they smoke, but people who vape tend to be very interested in the different technologies that they could be using, the different recipes of vape liquids they could be trying out, and even in learning how to make their own liquids.
Vaping culture is a very real thing, and although not everybody who vapes is interested in this, and some people simply just use the devices without getting involved in all of that, the fact that there is an active community of people who take it seriously shows that it is an important technological change that we have seen in the last decade or so that has had an impact on modern culture.
A New Industry With Opportunities For Small Businesses and the Legal Industry
A final change to consider that vaping has made to the world is that it has created an entirely new industry, which unlike the tobacco industry is not dominated by just a few big players. Lots of smaller retailers and manufacturers of custom and specialist e-liquids and devices, such as Blazed Vapes, have emerged. So far, at least, it has been an industry that has been led by innovators, people who are interested in vaping themselves, and small cottage industries, rather than by big brands. That is not to say that there aren't big brands involved in the manufacture of electronic cigarette devices and vape liquids, but it is a much more open market than many other modern industries.
With how influential vaping has become, it has lead to some people hiring a juul attorney, or someone who can fight for their clients when there is potential damage associated with vaping.
As you can see, the rise in vaping and the innovation that went into bringing it into the world in the first place, has changed a lot of things about society, socially, technologically, and commercially. As the number of people who participate in vaping continues to rise, it is likely that we will see this industry becoming more and more influential.
The most obvious impact that vaping has had on society is that it offers a new method for people to quit smoking cigarettes. A lot of people struggle with giving up smoking using normal methods that were around before electronic cigarettes, such as nicotine patches and gum. This is because although these methods replace the nicotine drug itself, they do not replace the habits that many smokers have formed around cigarettes. The psychological addiction can be much harder to break than the physical one.
When people vape instead of smoking cigarettes, they are inhaling water vapor rather than smoke. While it has not been completely proven whether this is harmless, it is widely thought to be significantly less harmful than smoking tobacco.
Because vaping feels more similar to smoking than any other form of nicotine replacement therapies, it enables people to break down their habit at a later date than just getting off of the nicotine drug itself. It is possible to reduce the amount of nicotine used in vape liquids down to zero without experiencing any withdrawal symptoms as you do it. Yet, you still have the experience of having something to do with your hands and mouth, and the habits that you may have formed around smoking such as having a cigarette after dinner, or when you first get up in the morning, can be replaced by the act of using your electronic cigarette instead.
For a lot of people who have unsuccessfully tried to quit smoking using other methods, the advent of vaping was good news as it offered a new smoking cessation method that could potentially allow them to keep their habit, or at least deal with it at a later time rather than dealing with missing their cigarette breaks while they are also missing the nicotine in their bloodstream.
A Less Antisocial Situation For Nicotine Addicts
As most people accept that vaping is less harmful, at least to the people around the person using the device, than smoking, there is a lot less stigma around using electronic cigarettes around other people than there is around smoking tobacco. Another element to this is that vapor from the electronic cigarettes tends to smell much better than tobacco smoke to non-smokers and so they do not feel as upset about people using the devices around them.
This is good news for everyone because smokers have for a long time suffered from a stigma around them being antisocial, and non-smokers have had to put up with being surrounded by people who do something they see as harmful and invasive. The rise in vaping has meant that people at parties no longer have to go outside for cigarettes in little groups but can do something as an alternative that does not have as much of a stigma attached to it and is not as problematic for the people around them. Unlike cigarette smokers, people who vape tend not to feel like social pariahs when they go out. They are also less likely to have unwanted attention from people they don't know who feel that they need to berate them smoking near them.
A Whole New Culture Based Around Technology
A more subtle way that vaping has changed the world around us is that there is a whole culture that has grown up around it. There are no internet forums where people discuss the brand of cigarette they smoke, but people who vape tend to be very interested in the different technologies that they could be using, the different recipes of vape liquids they could be trying out, and even in learning how to make their own liquids.
Vaping culture is a very real thing, and although not everybody who vapes is interested in this, and some people simply just use the devices without getting involved in all of that, the fact that there is an active community of people who take it seriously shows that it is an important technological change that we have seen in the last decade or so that has had an impact on modern culture.
A New Industry With Opportunities For Small Businesses and the Legal Industry
A final change to consider that vaping has made to the world is that it has created an entirely new industry, which unlike the tobacco industry is not dominated by just a few big players. Lots of smaller retailers and manufacturers of custom and specialist e-liquids and devices, such as Blazed Vapes, have emerged. So far, at least, it has been an industry that has been led by innovators, people who are interested in vaping themselves, and small cottage industries, rather than by big brands. That is not to say that there aren't big brands involved in the manufacture of electronic cigarette devices and vape liquids, but it is a much more open market than many other modern industries.
With how influential vaping has become, it has lead to some people hiring a juul attorney, or someone who can fight for their clients when there is potential damage associated with vaping.
As you can see, the rise in vaping and the innovation that went into bringing it into the world in the first place, has changed a lot of things about society, socially, technologically, and commercially. As the number of people who participate in vaping continues to rise, it is likely that we will see this industry becoming more and more influential.
