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Yup, kids love their Juul. Smoking is uncool, but Juuling is what all the kids are doing. Arguably it's creating worse nicotine addicts that cigarettes ever did.

Interesting article from a short while back on the topic: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/the-promise-of...

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As someone who has been addicted to both, I'll say that the Juul wasn't as big a psychological torment as cigarettes.

With the Juul, you can almost honestly say you're enjoying the experience.

With a cigarette your mouth taste terrible, it burns your throat/sinuses, and you only get the nicotine 'high' which is, at best, an abatement of nicotine withdrawal symptoms.

So when I kept smoking cigarettes "against my will" it was really confusing and maddening.

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