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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Maddy Mussen

Gen Z will vape wherever they want and don't care who they piss off

It’s widely understood by now that wielding a vape is a double-edged sword. Sure, you say goodbye to the harmful tar and carbon monoxide when you stub out your last cigarette, but once you pick up that vape, you never put it down.

Vaping’s lack of lingering smell and fire risk means that many users vape freely wherever they choose. It starts in the home, then graduates to more explicitly forbidden locations as a vaper grows in confidence. For every untriggered fire alarm, a vaper becomes increasingly emboldened. You no longer think, ‘Where shouldn’t I vape?’ but instead ‘Where couldn’t I vape?’

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