Vapers suck - literally
The image above was posted on social media by a pro-vaping campaigner.
I won't mention their name because I don't want this to be a personal attack on someone I think is well-intentioned, but it begs the question, if 'smoking sucks' what does it say about the millions of people who enjoy smoking and don't want to quit?
At the very least it reveals a belligerent intolerance of someone’s else habit. That would be bad enough coming from a never smoker, but the person concerned is a former smoker. Naturally.
I'm going to control my language, but I genuinely don’t understand why ex-smokers feel the need to disparage and denigrate their old habit, impervious to the potential impact their comments may have on those who continue to smoke.
‘Smoking sucks’ is the sort of childish taunt you might hear in the playground and is arguably, in modern parlance, a form of bullying.
Why should current smokers have to put up with it, especially from former smokers?
If you have chosen to stop smoking and have found an alternative nicotine product that reduces the risk to your health and makes you happy, good luck to you.
But stop trying to make those who enjoy smoking (and don't want to quit) feel bad about something you previously engaged in, and probably once enjoyed.
Oh, and before anyone else claims that ‘smoking sucks’, there’s something they ought to know. Vapers suck too. Literally.
PS. Since we’re on the subject of smoking and vaping, this article - published yesterday on the BBC Science Focus website - is worth reading: