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Here's an example.
I was advertised camel smokes as a kid.
Everytime I relapse it's on camels. Camels are shitty and cheap.
I relapse and then switch to a brand that's not garbage. Then figure out again how to beat the addiction.
It's a substance use disorder directly caused by advertising. And cancer causing (so my physical environment).
Here's another mental illness that's very easy to trace back to advertising.
Eating disorders.
I think those are good examples, thanks.
Off topic: I don't smoke, but do generally hate smoking so much. I dislike the smell, and the affects on people around the user, like you said. I appreciate vaping. Not because of some hopeful idea that it would be safer, but cause I either can't smell it, or it smells like cotton candy. Who doesn't love the smell of cotton candy?
Also, props for quitting all the times you have. I'm probably majorly addicted to caffeine. Like smokers tell me they have one first thing in the morning, coffee is the first desire after I'm out of bed. I've already limited myself to two-ish cups/day, but I don't think that helped. Coffee also has negative effects on others...fortunately, my wife has coffee breath too :)
just to say, it's about 95% less full of harmful chemicals. even opponents admit that. vaping is safer. not safe but safer. and unlike the 200+ times i tried to quite over 45 years (hypnosis, gum, patch, groups, acupuncture, and a heap 'cold turkey), it took me just a few years to quit by first switching to vapes. and within a month of the switch, i felt better in every way. all the bs restrictions in place are so dumb.
It's also more addictive than tobacco. Which isn't saying it's not safer. But the vape ROA hits the brain faster than smoking. This reinforces the addiction cycle more effectively. One of the reasons crack cocaine is so fucking addictive. It's vaped cocaine.
No the other way around. Smoking hits you very fast, almost instantly because it's very fine particles that pass into the bloodstream. Vaping is much slower because it's vaporized droplets that get absorbed slowly through mucus membrane, and it's less effective (like 50% effective after 30 min vs. 100% after 5 min). Nicotine salt e-liquid "improves" that a bit to hit faster, to help people stop smoking. You can find articles and papers on this.
Huh... I was basing this info off huberman labs episode on nicotine. He's usually very accurate (he's a neurobiologist and a professor at a major university)