Saving Millions or Making us SICK?? The Shocking Truth Behind Vaping

the other day I was in the mood to watch an old movie so I turned on Casablanca and if you watch old movies there's something that you notice that maybe you forgot about there's always so much smoking right and the movies in like well cablanca was in all black and white so it just it looks so everyone just looks so cool and so sophisticate and they're just like what did you say and it made me wonder like 50 years from now when they make movies about us well we all have Vapes in our hands I

mean if they want like the movie to be accurate Vapes might be included it seems to be a controversial topic but to be fair everyone is vaping these days if you've ever watched my um Tik Tok like for you page videos on Instagram you know that I take I like to take a hit of the devil's lettuce from a vape pin but every time I post one of those videos without fail someone is like you know vaping so bad for you blah blah blah and I'm like yeah I know you know people are always on

opposite sides of the fence really and like look real talk here real talk um people always say like well it's better than smoking cigarettes and you're like well okay I don't know you know so of course naturally I was like look we got to like look into this right who the hell invented the VAP pen and are they really that bad for you spoiler alert let me just say the answer might surprise surprise you welcome to the dark history of [Music] vaping hi friends I hope you're having a wonderful day today my name is Bailey

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when I say the word Vape there are a ton of different names Brands and products that are associated with vaping ecigarettes vaporizers e pipes hookah pens Jewels are Jewels still around uh Vape whatever but essentially they all do the same thing they're all battery power devices that heat up a liquid then turn it into vapor and then you inhale and it tastes good cuz they have a lot of good flavors over the last 10 years it seems like these vape pens have just really come out of nowhere it's like suddenly your Aunt Barbara is sucking

on a banana ice flavored puff bar and you're like let me hit that is it good but the truth is vape pens have been around in some form for almost 100 years I know I was like I know nothing you know and it all started with a man named Joseph Robinson you see in 1927 Joseph invented something called the mechanical butane ignition vaporizer rolls right off the tongue but he didn't invent this device for smoking instead he wanted to make something that could help people inhale their medicine almost like an inhaler for asthma but you

know not for asthma he designed the device and even got a patent for it 1930 but Joseph like never actually followed through and made the product no one knows why but his invention was not a waste because for years people wanted to make an inhaling device similar to his and that's where a man named Herbert a Gilbert comes in Herbert Gilbert that's a cute cute name he sounds like a hippo Herbert Gilbert no well in the 1960s Herbert was living like you know beautiful peaceful life in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania Beaver Falls it already sounds like

there's white picket fence houses green grass it just sounds nice Beaver Falls okay well he was raising a family while working at his small business a place called Gilbert Iron and Steel and they were essentially scrap metal dealers now just like every other man in the area Herbert was a big time smoker you know at one point he was uh said to be smoking like two packs a day now Herbert he knew he had to quit right but quitting cold turkey hell so he got to thinking what makes smoking so bad for your health I'm

sure were like everything right yeah but he was thinking it now Herbert wasn't in a lab so he couldn't do like fancy experiments he basically lived in the woods in Pennsylvania so one day he looked in his backyard and thought quote the problem as I concluded was that when you burned leaves and wood even if you did it in your backyard it yielded a result that no one wanted to take into their lungs end quote so Herbert got to figuring out how can you heat something up without making it toxic so he goes to the

kitchen and he opens up the fridge when he has another thought saying quote I happen to remember how tea is brewed that solved the problem using logic I had to find a way to replace burning tobacco and paper with heated moist flavored air end quote so this just gets his mind going he's like I have to figure out a way to trap moist air into some kind of device I can suck on so he looks around his scrap yard and he grabs some extra metal and he gets to work and what he ends up inventing

is a black metal tube with a silver tip it was battery powered and able to make Vapor out of heating a liquid Herbert's invention is very similar to what we know today as like The Vape Pen now the difference is Herbert did not want there to be any type of addictive substance in it like nicotine but he did go on to invent Vape juice that would go inside of this little Contraption and not just any random vape juice he thought of all of his favorite things he liked to eat and drink things like rum cinnamon

mint and he managed to create a vapor for each flavor when he inhaled the pen it was like drinking a my taii Not only would this help people quit smoking he thought you know but Herbert was also thinking maybe it could help people diet I mean a lot of people were smoking because it was being advertised is like skip a meal have a cigarette so kind of like okay I can I can see the connection there Herbert called this invention the smokeless and in 1963 he patented it he packed his briefcase and started networking with

people to get this invention off the ground he knew that this had so much potential so he was pitching this idea to chemical companies Pharm cutical companies tobacco companies but for some reason no one no one wanted to touch it now Herbert was devastated he knew that this device had so much potential and here's what really sucked Herbert was trying to make his smokeless device pop off during a time when most of America didn't consider smoking a serious issue no one really knew that they were all going to be dying you know like he was

just ahead of his time it's like why smoke that when I could just have my lucky strike a year after his invention failed the US Surgeon General publicly released a report showing a direct connection between lung cancer and smoking the public finally realized that they needed to at least try to quit smoking because look you're going to die there could be like some deadly consequences okay Herbert gave up hope after none of those companies or corporations took interest in the smokeless even after the report came out so his patent expired and his invention kind of

just fizzled out over a decade would go by before the vape pen returned to society but this time it had to have something that a smoker would quit their cigarettes for it needed to be something that would take the edge off quitting cold turkey and keep users coming back for more well seasons are changing I don't know about you I'm Dr I'm looking like Leatherface I'm looking like beef jerky I'm looking like dehydrated thirsty you know and with the changing seasons you have to change your skin care CU your skin needs different things you know

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for Alternatives then in 1979 a man named Phil Ray was one of those people looking for a solution Phil he worked well he was like a computer genius who worked for NASA and he was known for helping men land on the moon so smart guy you know but everyone has their Vice and for Phil he was a smoker he liked smoking okay and he got to the point where he really wanted to quit but there weren't any good options out there well that's not true there was an option the only option was nicotine gum but

at this time it wasn't very effective nor satisfying you didn't get that it's just it's not the same you know he's thinking why am I waiting around for someone to invent a smoking alternative I work at freaking NASA I need to figure this out you know so Phil goes to his doctor his doctor's name is Norman Jacobson and he asked him to help create an ecigarette he wanted to preserve the buzz and the throat hit of smoking a cigarette but eliminate the smoke so he designed a product that was the size and shape of a

cigarette and it was even painted to look like one to oh it's like oh okay but what was in it well Phil had a light bulb moment what if people smoke pure nicotine vapor that way people could actually stop buying packs of cigarettes and maybe even just stop smoking altogether at this time science was saying that smoking was bad for your lungs and caused cancer which true okay chemicals all that yes but a major reason people were addicted to smoking and still are is because of the nicotine nicotine is a chemical that is in the

tobacco plant so if you could figure out a way to get your nicotine fixed without hurting your lungs you should be good right now scientists of course did not agree with this because nicotine was still addictive and it's still a chemical you know but Phil argued that his nicotine ecigarette was basically like nicotine gum just it a different delivery system a piece of paper soaked in liquid nicotine would be placed inside the device and once you inhaled a beautiful puffy cloud of pure nicotine would come up Phil called this device the favor oh he filed

a patent and actually got the product sold on the market they even used the tagline do yourself a favor when advertising it in stores and it seemed like this was the product of the future for smokers looking to quit but pretty much right when it got on the market the FDA tried to ban it which is like okay they claimed it was a drug okay Dr Jacob Phil's co-inventor called BS he's like this is not a drug the favor had less nicotine than a traditional cigarette so how could their product be a drug but cigarettes

were still allowed to be sold it may no sense make it make sense you know they were pissed and even though Dr Jacobson didn't have any solid evidence he believed big tobacco screwed with their company because they knew how successful the product would be or could be and I mean they would be in direct competition with each other and big tobacco they want to keep their customers at all costs okay but also to be fair Phil and Dr Jacobson were ignoring a major flaw with their product the favor EIG juice is just nicotine when nicotine

sits for a while it becomes very bitter and it tastes nasty the product would have probably flopped on the market anyway still the product created an appetite for nicotine in eigs and Phil is actually the guy who created the term vaping Wow way to leave your Markville I mean you could say it wasn't all a waste and look over the next few decades so many different companies try to create an EIG that actually could make it in the market and all of them failed finally in 2003 one man succeeded and he singlehandedly changed the vaping

seen forever in the 9s a man named Han lick love that went to study traditional Chinese medicine at College he was always supposed to go there it was like a career chosen for him when he was younger Han was born in China where there were more than 300 million smokers so just like many people he knew as soon as Han was an adult he started smoking he said that as soon as he woke up he cigarette in the mouth he'd go to class smoke in between smoke at lunch Smoke on the way home smoke smoke

smoke smoke he'd usually go through two packs by the time he got home and smoke a third over dinner and drinks with his colleagues damn didn't you feel like doooo okay Side Story side note I started smoking cigarettes when I was 18 cuz I wanted to be like Mary Kate Olsen whatever come for me don't care but I I just thought she was so cool and I wanted to smoke and like and then like it's very addictive you know you just whatever I smoked so much I was up to like I thought I was up

to a pack a day at one point in my life and I don't I felt like garbage so I don't know how you're up to three I don't smoke anymore I Vape I'm sorry I'm sorry leave me alone shut up shut up when I first got into vaping the only people who were doing it were like kind of no offense lowkey High I was there though douchebags like all the douchebags all the Bros they were vaping it was like so embarrassing and it was like cringey and I show up today and Paul looks exactly how

these VAP Ros used to look and maybe they still look this way and I'm just out of touch now cuz I'm a little bit older but Paul you look you look like a vape bro vape Life any who back on track Bailey Good Times uh so he smoking a lot at the time smoking was again totally normal and then one day this all changed hans's father also heavy smoker he got diagnosed with lung cancer and sadly passed away from it for Han this was like a really big wakeup call and he finally decided that he

wanted to stop so he turned to nicotine patches you know for help and they were definitely helping but you know there's that oral fixation that you lose uh you don't get that with a patch okay he still had that desire to smoke it was better than nothing but yeah it's hard one night Han forgot to take off his nicotine patch before bed and I guess he had some insane nightmares all night he said that he woke up a different man he realized why the patches just weren't cutting it anymore with patches you get a small

continuous dose of nicotine with smoke you get a sharp and quick high of nicotine which for him relaxed him so Han decided to create a solution he thought he could use his knowledge of Chinese medicine to help he wanted to create a device that would mimic smoking without again the deadly smoke in 2003 he invented his own version of an ecigarette he called it the Ruan which translates to like smoke in his device liquid was being turned into vapor through something called an ultrasonic automizer sounds so fancy I know but I guess it's similar technology

to to um ultrasonic cleaners people use to clean their jewelry in Tik Tok videos I got one of those oh they work so well I don't know how they work but they work okay it's weird but essentially vibrations are used to like shake the liquid so hard and fast that it turns into like super tiny droplets AKA vapor and this created a much smoother and better drag when it was inhaled maybe you've seen these devices they look like cigarettes and when you inhale them there's a little light on the end and it looks kind of

like a lit cigarette initially the products were only sold in China as a way to help people quit smoking cigarettes but by the mid 2000s they made their way to the US in the patent Han and his company file they said the device functioned as quote substitutes for quitting smoking and cigarette substitutes end quote Hans device sold really well in the US so well that in 2013 Imperial tobacco group bought the product for $75 million good for him huh as for Han he went back to smoking cigarettes so you know he still Vapes I guess

so now he's just addicted to two things but hey you go Han you tried and that's all that matters since Han's invention arrived in the US a ton of other companies decided to get in on the EIG business since 2007 e Sig sales in the US have been rising more and more according to a report from GAO to this day 90% of the E6 that we have in the US are imported from China there's one vape pen that was started right here in the US of a and many people believe this vape pen redefined the

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cigarettes you have to buy the packs the lighter you got to find a place to smoke um find time to Smoke Plus then you stink all day you smell like a smoker your fingers start to turn kind of like this yellowish color um it sucks so they decided to create something that would help them quit smoking so they put their heads together to design their very own take on a vape pen by this point dozens of vape pens had crashed and burned in the industry so they're like okay we have to stand out you know

first of all they were setting themselves apart from Han's device they didn't want this to look like a cigarette they wanted it to be in a category all on its own it was going to look futuristic and Chic and it wasn't going to be just disposable okay this was something they wanted people to take pride in owning a vape pen to lead to your grandchildren a vape pen to pass on for generations to come now in order to create a good product you had to obviously look at the research what did people like about East

cigarettes what did they not like what did they keep buying why did they keep buying them instead of digging into the typical research the guys decided to get creative they discovered that a nearby col College had access to public records of internal documents within the tobacco industry hello score when all these scientific studies came out about how cigarettes and cancer were connected it also came out that tobacco companies had been lying to the public about how deadly it was big tobacco companies were sued and they were forced to turn over the data that they had

been hiding from the public including data on who bought cigarettes and and why this information was gold to James and Adam suddenly they had decades worth of research now they didn't have to do all of their own research because big tobacco had like done a lot of it for them they got to sit back relax and almost in a way cheat their way through research I don't like saying cheat their way because really it was all available to them they just use their resources you know they're like thank you this helps us tremendously and from

there they figured out how to Market to each and every demographic smart I'll give them that they were so stoked about this product that they decided to make it their senior thesis they invented a portable vape pen called the plume it sounds like something for like douching right kind of sounds like something like douche you would douche with like plume keeps you fresh but that's what they went with okay uh but with this device it was portable and it didn't look like a cigarette it was almost like a shiny black car key you know just

a little bit bigger the plume heated up PODS of flavored nicotine which created a nicotine vapor that could be inhaled James and Adam's professors warned them that they were moving way too quickly with their idea and not doing enough research but you know how it is they're like n we're going to do it anyway after they graduated they moved to Silicon Valley and began a startup based around plume but right away it wasn't going so well plume needed butane fuel in order to work so users had to carry a little can of fuel with them

in order to refill talk about an inconvenience also apparently the plume would sometimes electrically shock users when they used it so it was a good idea they just needed to work out the Kinks so they ended up getting a $10 million investment and redesigned the plume into the PA pen okay this I remember I remember PA pens now these were this was the beginning right so things are like ridiculously priced it the Pax pen was $250 so who's going to buy that okay and yeah Bob down the street can like not buy cigarettes for a

week and I'm sure he would have the $250 to do that but Bob's not going to do that because he needs his fix now you know so it wasn't really exactly for everyone James and Adam they knew the only way that they would attract the younger everyday person was to design something with a reasonable price tag and also give them that good hit of nicotine so they got the design down they came up with a 4in long device that honestly looked like a USB drive it had these flashing lights that would activate as soon as

you sucked on it and inhaled they called this Creation The Jewel they called it Jewel because of a jewel like jewelry yeah nothing deeper than that really I thought it was like a cute name no just like jewelry with the jewel it's supposed to be quote discreet and aesthetically pleasing making the user feel like they have a little piece of modern luxury and they spelled it out that way just to stand out the jewel was invented in 2015 they kicked off marketing for Jewel right away to try and make vaping appealing and easier and an

option they went right after companies like Vice magazine which mostly targeted young people they took out a Times Square billboard they sent free samples of Jewel to people like Leonardo Dicaprio and Bella Hadid and they did whatever they thought they should do to make the product cool and in the public eye you know and it worked by the end of 2017 Jewel was the number one vape pen in America and by 2018 the company was valued at $15 billion Insanity literally 3 years after it hit the market that is insane I loved my Jewel though

I had a jewel I loved it there was like a mango I would just like suck on it all day it was so easy to use it was like small I don't know I like them I liked it a lot even though juwel was a preferred vape pen in America they were starting to get called out for their questionable marketing life in general can be chaotic but if you're in charge of order fulfillment for an e-commerce business good luck because that's a different kind of chaos but with ship station you can count on your day

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they were sending free jewels to celebrities so they'd be caught vaping in paparazzi photos and we all know how young people are influenced by celebrities I mean look at me I started smoking because of Mary Kay Olsen and I'm sorry I don't want to put that pressure on her because at the end of the day we all make our own choices but I wanted to be like Mary Kate so bad so like I was like Parliament lights me too girl American Spirits you know so if you're seeing celebrities vaping these Jewel pens same thing but

Jewel would remind website visitors that you had to be a legal adult in order to purchase their products you know even if you were underage and couldn't legally buy a vape you still be able to like get jeal marketing emails and even if you failed the age verification page on their website you'd still get spammed with advertising they'd be following you juwel was even accused of of advertising near schools selling their products out in the open in stores not behind the counter and funneling free Vapes to the new wave of celebrities influencers where was mine

I didn't get one hello so rude I'm very upset about this you know but at the end of the day this quote unquote bad press wasn't bad for juwel we all know that if you tell people and teenagers that they can't have something they're going to want to do it even more especially if you try to ban it I mean there was this whole controversy over vape flavors being created just for kids so there's flavors like cotton candy bubblegum mango you name it okay I loved mango people who were antiv Vapors believed that these flavors

were cre created specifically for children do you guys remember when they banned those mint Jewel pods now the reason was that they believed they being whoever's in charge around here uh that certain Jewel flavors would stop young people from smoking in my personal opinion Banning mint isn't going to stop young people cuz like we're going young people want like bubblegum they want mango they want like cake they you know mint mint gave me a stomach ache I didn't really care I was like go ahead ban mint but it doesn't take a genius to know that

there's more than one company making a flavor that you like it just seems like this was all for show there was a study done in 2021 by Dr Abigail s fredman which showed that teenagers in San Francisco specifically they actually started smoking cigarettes more after they started Banning vape flavors so people are addicted and they're going to get their fix where they're going to get their fix you know what I'm saying but then in 2019 the North Carolina attorney general sued juwel for Designing marketing and selling its ecigarettes to young people and surprisingly they won

juel was forced to pay $40 million into programs that would help prevent addiction to ecigarettes they also had to agree to stop advertising near schools plus juel was given the strict order to stop quote unquote misrepresenting the danger of nicotine and its products in 2022 the FDA banned the sale of jewels in the United States then in 2024 they partially reversed the decision letting them sell Jewels while they were under review by the FDA so it was like make up your freaking mind and look to be clear it's not just Jewel that they were doing

all this too they were just the ones who were being made an example of dozens of Vape companies took advantage of young people wanting to try vaping by advertising on social media there were ads on Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter X whatever Pinterest I don't know Vape everywhere everywhere you go vape and the kids and teens who didn't have social media juwel bought ads on Nickelodeon Cartoon Network and teen magazines which is so weird right right and it worked cuz it's still smoking I don't know from 2014 to 2016 a poll was done that showed 78%

of American middle school and high school students confirmed that they had seen at least one ad for vaping and surprisingly 63% of adolescents don't know that juwel specifically contained nicotine and to be honest we don't really think of nicotine as being that serious it's kind of like caffeine you know because of how new it is this is my assumption is that's the reason why we you never really hear about like long-term health risks for adults when it comes to vaping uh yeah I mean it's always about the kids which I get but I'm wondering if

you're an adult you know is vaping really that bad for you yeah I don't know well the answer always goes back to two things nicotine and additives and vape pens are always compared to cigarettes so I wanted to do a quick comparison according to the American Lung Association there are around 600 ingredients in one cigarette and when burned the cigarettes create more than 7,000 chemicals at least 69 of those chemicals are known to cause cancer okay so we can gree not great now it's a little more complicated to study vape pens since one there are

so many companies and the FDA rules for vape pen manufacturers are hazy confusing and a little blurred there was a study done in 2021 by a team of researchers at John's Hopkins that found over 2,000 chemicals in popular Vape brands most most of those chemicals hadn't been reported by the manufacturer some people would have no idea that they were vaping these chemicals I thought it was just water and Vapor like I don't even know I just thought nicotine and like smoke like you know I don't know no one no one knows in 2014 there was

a study published in a scientific journal called European addiction research which showed that using ecigarettes is around 95% less harmful than regular cigarettes I'll make sure to link these studies down below if you're more curious but to be fair I'm just saying this in my own opinion that study was done in 2014 Vapes have progressed a lot and there are so many out there I mean who knows what are in these Vapes the only thing that we really have solid evidence on is the nicotine I learned that nicotine is not great I know you're probably

thinking I'm dumb but I didn't realize that nicotine actually can lead to cognitive deficits meaning uh this is going like it affects your ability to learn and it affects your memory oh yeah now this is especially true if you're a young person whose brain is still developing which probably makes sense cuz my memory is so bad and I've been vaping on and off for so long long I've been Ving for so long is that why my memory sucks I don't know you know what they say everything in moderation right most vape pens contain the same

amount of nicotine as 20 cigarettes or one standard pack of cigarettes oh so we're we're just getting hit with that our brain is probably like what the is going on bro so if you limit yourself to just a few Puffs it's still better than BL blowing through a bunch of cigarettes I guess the problem is it's so easy to quickly grab a hit of a vape many people are inhaling as much as 200 times a day and that's when things can you know take a deadly turn this episode is crazy right I mean who knew

vaping had such an intense history I mean Paul over here got a little too inspired by the episode and he ended up injuring himself do you want to tell them how Paul oh no Paul no no okay well long story short Paul was ripping so many fat clowns that he sprained his wrist now Paul I I highly suggest you see a doctor I mean you might not even be able to vape again is that what you want well don't worry Paul because finding a doctor is easy thanks to Zach do hey it's an ad Zach

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started vaping Jordan said that she became totally addicted it was one addiction to another you know she said that she was spending around $500 a week to keep up with her Vape habit she was constantly hitting the vape pen she said she would sleep with her pen wake up hit that go back to bed and she would take a shower hit it in the shower she wasn't taking breaks okay in 2023 about 2 years after she started vaping Jordan said that she started to feel a little off she felt like she had this heaviness in

her chest she went to the hospital several times thinking maybe she had like an infection or bronchitis she also started to develop a horrible cough and she had little to no voice her body was swelling up from her ankles to her kneecaps and she could barely walk her skin was turning gray she was feeling confused the doctors couldn't figure out like what was wrong with her and just would send her home everything came to a head in May of 2023 when Jordan's partner found her unresponsive in bed she had black liquid black liquid goo pouring

out of her nose and mouth I guess at this time she was gasping and she like couldn't like catch her breath she was still alive her partner called 911 and she was rushed to the hospital when she got there the staff scanned Jordan's lungs and found that they were badly damaged doctors had to pump 2 lers of fluid out of Jordan's lungs 2 L that's like a big bottle of coke you know I guess the liquid that they had got out of her was like The Vape juice cuz when you think about it if you

vape cuz I know you do I know a lot of people Vape like it's the juice was in her I know I know I'm going to quit Jordan said quote my body was trying to force out the Vape juice inside my lungs which was like concrete it was pure black and bloody end quote okay Jordan had to be placed in an 11 day long medically induced coma but thankfully she survived Jordan has permanent lung damage as a result of all of this and she also suffered a minor brain injury due to lack of oxygen oh

my God she said quot they told me if ID waited any longer I wouldn't have been here I haven't touched a vape since end quote go for you that must have been real scary even though cases like Jordan's are rare she isn't the only person we know of to be hospitalized because of her vaping habit and a lot of people weren't as lucky as her around the time Jordan got sick other strange illnesses started to take over the media and maybe you saw this a condition called E Valley which is a lung injury that's associated

with ecigarettes or vaping this name e Valley was created because there was a surprising rise in Vape related hospitalizations E Valley what a name it kind of reminds me of do you guys play Animal Crossing it sounds like a animal crossing Island I'm going to E Valley send me your Island codes I'll come visit okay I love Animal Crossing um okay so E Valley bad bad there's not a whole lot known about E Valley we do know patients went in with serious breathing issues and most cases turned out to be related to something found in

illegal weed vape pens called vitamin E acetate now weed vape pens are different I mean there's the same concept right but you don't know what chemical you're getting in these Vapes when you hit and and in halale the vitamin E in a vape pen form it could create a highly toxic gas there were around 2800 cases and 68 deaths most of the cases were connected to illegal street bought vape pens and it does seem like they're trying to scare us a lot with vaping but the reality is there's still a lot of background information missing

when it when it comes or it came to like these cases so people could have had health conditions that they didn't know they had before vaping um some people could have lung damag from smoking cigarettes and some people buy their Vapes in Shady places I keep saying this when it comes to vaping I feel like we are the test subjects we really don't know longterm what this is going to do to us but we're going to find out because a lot of people out there are vaping if you look around I don't know where you

live but where I live everyone has a Vape in their hand and we're vaping all the time I Vape all the time it's disgusting and I hate it and I want to quit I don't know how and it's like I'm so good in my life personally like I don't drink I don't do drugs I'm not promiscuous not that there's say I would love to be but like um I don't like I don't do anything wild like vaping I feel like is my one Vice and that's what I'm like well we all have that one thing

like that's always my excuse but I would love to quit you know cuz we really don't know where this is going to go so good luck to us is what I'm getting at what's crazy to me is that all the Vapes we talked about today have something in common they followed the same design Herbert patented in 1963 we could say poor Herbert cuz he never saw like any money or any profit from that but if it wasn't for Herbert I mean we wouldn't we probably wouldn't be here so pros and cons PR and I don't

know Herbert wasn't bitter about it or anything though in an interview he said he was proud that he is at all associated with an invention that he believes helps people quit smoking he said quote the only substantial thing I received was the satisfaction of saving millions of lives end quote a see that's so nice and again if you think about it vaping really only took off in the last decade so stay tuned I don't know we might just be dropping like flies everyone always wants to fight with me in like the comment section there was

another dark history we did where we mentioned popcorn lung and The Vape Community came after me so hard and I'm like shut up I Vape too for now what we do know vaping shouldn't be marketed towards kids especially because nicotine does some to your brain um you should definitely look into this a little bit more about the effects that nicotine has on your brain and it might make sense as to why you're feeling the way you are anxiety impulsiveness anger can't sleep uh shakiness like it all comes from Nick intine and if you're vaping a

lot it's probably that just letting you know and you don't want this to be on your kids because you want your kids to develop a full brain and then let your brain go to okay you know so so and kids they love this stuff well according to most of the studies we have available to us today vaping can be incredibly helpful if you want to stop smoking cigarettes just know as someone who has been doing this you're just replacing one addiction to another and I'm not trying to discourage you just know it's one addiction to

another yeah know now if you're like me and you're over it and you and you're ready to quit vaping listen good for you I'm right there with you it's hard so then I do nicotine gum and to help me like wean off of it that seems to be working for me as long as I'm keeping my mouth busy there are also medications you can um ask your doctor about to help you quit there's also a phone number you can call 1 800 quit now or 87744 you quit and you can call this number talk with

a counselor who can help you get this quitting process started which is nice or maybe you're like I hate calling people on the phone well you can actually chat with the National Cancer Institute at livehelp or you can text quit to 47848 if you need to get help it's better than suffering in silence you know I'm going to call this number I'm very curious to see what they have to say like I love vaping you know when I tried to um quit smoking originally back in the day [Music] day you can tell me like there's

nothing you can say to me to make me feel better at that time there you know but I remember I came across this picture and it was of a human body and it was like here's what your lungs look like every day that you quit smoking and it was like after 2 weeks this starts to grow after 4 weeks this starts to grow like you're lungs know how to repair themselves so if you quit like they your lungs can fix itself and I would read this chart and it always gave me motivation knowing like okay

my lungs are now like doing this today it kind of sounds stupid as I say it out loud but it's also kind of reminds me of women when they're pregnant and then they do those apps and it's like your baby's a pee and then like the next day your baby's a mango it was like that but like your lungs are now this today your lungs are now that and that was what really kept me going was having this visual element of what my lungs looked like they could be lying but like I don't know that's

what kept me going and maybe I should do that again for Vaping I don't know stay tuned I mean maybe in a few years we'll be doing another dark history of like hey vaping that went wrong and look if you vape I'm not here to judge okay we're all just trying to make it through this life I get it I'd love to hear your thoughts though down below so let me know in the comment section I've also heard about this new thing it's not new um God what is it called it's like a chewing tobacco

but it comes in little pouches and you put it in your in your lip and you don't have to spit and kids are now really liking this so I think vaping might be phasing out and people are going to be going to this new lip thing it's called Zen it's called Zen parents just letting you know cuz kids are doing this they kind of looks they come in like a little like it could be mints who knows you open it up you put one of those in you don't even know it's there they don't have

to spit there's none of that nasty tobacco to it it comes in a clear pouch not sponsored no I haven't tried one cuz I feel like it's just going to be another addiction for me and I don't want to have to like lose my lips but just letting you know parents Zen that's out there too vaping there's a lot I don't know how you guys are raising kids out there you got to be aware on the social medias on the the drug that are out there are so different the nicotin the energy drinks H God

be with you okay now after this episode I personally am ready for a little escapism and my personal favorite place to escape to Disneyland specifically the Pirates of the Caribbean ride now it's crazy that it started as a ride and then they based a whole movie franchise off of it right and it was like super popular because people just I guess are obsessed with Pirus people love Pirates and I discovered the Pirates in real life are way more violent and sexual than even Captain Jack am I favorite part some of the most wellknown pirates in

history were women so join me for the dark history of pirates by the way we're dark next week so there won't be a new upload but we'll be back on March 12th hope to see you there well friends thanks for hanging out with me today you can actually watch these episodes after the podcast airs on Thursday over on my YouTube also you can catch up on my uh murder mystery and makeup I do that too and while you're there hit that subscribe button cuz again I I have something for you all the time now let's

get to my favorite part let's read a couple of comments you guys have left me Dylan Fel 6975 said Bailey will you marry me Dylan okay I got a couple questions for you one what's your credit score do you have a 401k do you have a savings do you have a career um where do you live are you I'm not trying to be shallow but like if we went to a concert together would you be able to put me on your shoulders if there was a fire in the house would you be able to carry

me out how's your dental hygiene do you have any mysterious illnesses I should know about what are your dreams what are your goals are you good at Scrabble how do you sleep at night do you snore are you bed hog do you like animals Dylan we can't just jump into this like this you know like we got to get to know each other a little bit you know is there a ring if you come from money you can skip All Those Questions go to the straight of the line and pick me up at 7 okay

thank you hope to see you there Ali left us a fun fact saying did you know that Google's original name was back rub okay all right okay back rub okay okay I'm trying to process this so I'm glad they decided to Pivot to Google because I think Google is more it's catchy we know it's good back rub sounds like something it sounds creepy it sounds like your creepy Uncle coming up rubbing your shoulders and you're sitting there like okay yeah um back rub it's a little too close to back page but you know I want

to do an episode on Google I really do um yeah we'll see though they might kill me they own everything okay well thank you for that I'm going to look I'm going to look that up because I'm very interested in uh how they came up with that name back RB apocalypse Mouse love that 473 left us an episode suggestion squirrel cage jail s squirrel cage jails okay okay okay apocalypse Mouse you are on to something just found out a squirrel cage jail is a jail cell that would rotate in a circle constantly so prisoners couldn't

talk to each other wow that's really interesting I am intrigued squirrel cage jail I was over here thinking have you ever heard of a blue squirrel well blue squirrel a lot of makeup brushes were made from Blue squirrel back they don't really do it so much anymore but like and that was like one of the best hairs you could get blue squirrel so I was thinking oh this is probably where they get all that hair from but no that was a pivot okay well thank you guys so much for watching and hanging out with me

and always recommending episode suggestions I love it so much make sure to leave a comment and maybe I will um read yours wouldn't that be fun okay and hey if you don't know dark history is an audio boom original I want to give a big special thank you to our expert Chelsea Boyd epidemiologist and health policy thought leader and I'm your host Bailey seran I hope you have a good day you make good choices and I will be talking to you very soon goodbye [Music] oh [Music]