Remember this Babylon Bee joke?
Well, the prophecy has been fulfilled!
A real article from Bloomberg 👇
From the article:
Nathan Quandt is a former e-cigarette user from Grass Valley, CA. Like many others, he recently made the transition to tobacco cigarettes after learning about the immediate dangers of vaping.
'Since tobacco products are all still legal, they must be a much safer alternative,' Quandt said while deeply inhaling some nourishing cigarette fumes.
Oh, whoops, that's satire from The Bee!
Sorry about that. Here's Bloomberg:
A survey of more than 13,000 UK adults by the British public health charity Action on Smoking and Health found cigarettes were the second-most popular method of quitting vapes, right after nicotine replacement therapies like patches and gum.
Almost a fifth of vapers attempting to wean themselves off the habit have tried the method.
That is not satire.
The irony is that cigarettes are even worse for your health:
Researchers blame the problem on a fundamental misperception of the relative risks of the two habits. While nicotine, which causes the addiction and can affect cardiovascular health, is present in both, the physical damage from cigarettes come...