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the malboro man does not smoke e cigarettes. they're not cool. they're a medical tool for addicts. being an addict is not cool. as smoking is just silly herd behaviour of putting burning stinking sticks into your mouth and somehow being part of something cool, it's no surprise e cigarrettes don't take off.

only a big shift in marketing of these things can change that. if e cigarettes where seen as the Apple of smoking surely they'd sell better.



It's 2016, cigarettes aren't cool anymore.

I used to date a girl who used an ecig and would exhale a cloud of vanilla cookie aroma everywhere we went. I thought that was pretty cool to be honest.


It's 2016, being addicted to something that kills you (regardless of flavor), isn't cool anymore.


Interesting, except for the fact that nicotine is not carcinogenic and doesn't kill you. It is about as dangerous as caffeine, and we can look around us and see how uncool that dangerous substance has become over the past few decades...




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