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Originally Posted by Redway

Tobacco’s a drug quite alright, and it’s not even socially acceptable for people much younger than 25 to smoke it now.

To be fair though - tobacco isn't the drug, nicotine is the drug and as Niamh says the teens-and-twenty-somethings are vaping up a storm ... and it's been found that the nicotine intake from vaping is MUCH higher than from smoking. Partly because of the intake method, partly because a lot of people who vape vape CONSTANTLY all day long, whereas in smokers, true "chain smoking" (50+ a day) is quite rare.

Basically... it's tasty and more socially acceptable. Should it be? I dunno... but it just is. When we travel to see family we always stay with my sister in law who is in her mid 20's and a heavy "vaper". She sits with us in the evening in a constant cloud of vape and it honestly doesn't bother anyone ... whereas if we were sat in a cloud of cigarette smoke... well, we just wouldn't stay there at all to be honest.