@quinteotio@DrWoofAus@nick_coatsworth Luckily enough, your personal experience has nothing to do with the personal experience of millions of other people who have quit smoking by switching to vaping...
@IJFMedia Investigative Journalism Foundation? It would appear that you couldn't investigate your arse with both hands in the dark. Sit down and let the adults in the room talk.
The WHO graphic states nicotine’s addictive potential “is comparable to those of opioids LIKE HEROIN.”
That comparison is not precise science.
Nicotine acts on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors as a stimulant, reinforcing dopamine release without strong sedation or respiratory depression. Heroin is a full opioid agonist that produces intense euphoria, profound sedation, rapid tolerance, severe physical dependence, and high overdose mortality.
Nicotine withdrawal involves irritability and cravings but is rarely life-threatening. Heroin withdrawal is intensely uncomfortable and medically managed in severe cases.
Most tobacco harm comes from combustion byproducts (tar, carbon monoxide, carcinogens), not nicotine. Nicotine replacement therapies and non-combustible products carry substantially lower risk profiles.
Lumping mechanisms and risk levels this way oversimplifies pharmacology and public health distinctions.
@lostminds20@LidlGB@sainsburys What are you talking about? Neither of the Lidls near me have barriers... Hell, one of them doesn't even have self scan checkouts (and it's the bigger of the two). My Lidl app has the "paper receipt" setting turned off, so I never get one.