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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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They replaced smoking with vaping and other ROAs. I'm pretty sure the past decade+, % of teens addicted to nicotine would be far greater than teen smokers in the 90s.
I'm in my mid 40s and I'm constantly bombarded with Vaping PSA ads on Reddit. I don't vape.
Source? Because no way that can be true
A Millennials' feelings (of superiority)
It's my own estimation.
"I made it the fuck up"
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Ya but what pisses me off is that vaping ≠ nicotine. Secondhand vapour is far less of a problem than secondhand tobacco smoke, and that's before factoring in nicotine-free flavours. Banning it everywhere in the same thread as cigarettes is ridiculous and shouldn't be respected.
Ok... But most people aren't vaping non-nicotine juice. You're technically correct that it exists, but who cares? That's not the issue, the issue is that it has hooked a new generation of smokers.
You'd be surprised... Nicotine salts are pretty controlled in much of the world so many teenagers are just vaping flavour. Vaping with nicotine was more a thing among recovering smokers.
Zynns are a different story.... Those are stupid amounts of Nicotine and pretty popular.
No, I really wouldn't be surprised because I've been vaping for a decade, starting from enthusiast roots with high end mods and coil builds and then settling down into refillable tanks and off the shelf atomizers and juice.
As a former smoker I used ecigs to get off of nicotine by tapering down my nic content until I'm vaping 0 nic, which is HARD TO FIND on the shelf because nobody wants it. A lot of time the juice flavors are off/spoiled because they're sitting for so long.
It's NOT very common. Does it happen? Yes. But the whole thing is a pain in the ass and it doesn't "look cool" like smoking did at one point, so kids aren't just doing it for style points.