(ThyBlackMan.com) The Expenses of Addiction
Look, addiction’s expensive. You know this. What’s a pack of smokes, six dollars today? How addicted are you? Do you smoke a pack a day? That’s $42.00 a week, or $168.00 a month. If you go the carton route, it isn’t much cheaper; even rolling tobacco gets expensive quick. Meanwhile, for forty to a hundred dollars, you can get a vaporization device that will last you as long or longer than a hundred cartons of cigarettes, depending how you use it and what caliber of vaporization device you buy. The higher end ones are rated for exceptional usage. Additionally, with a vaporization device, you can switch out the flavors. Menthol, peach, raspberry, strawberry, mocha, whiskey–you name it, there’s probably a version of it that’s been reduced to a chemical composition that vaporizes into a close approximation of the smell and taste you love. Now, the cartridges are cheap too. Fifteen milliliters is approximately a carton’s worth of cigarettes, and only costs you about fifteen dollars. So for $115, you can be set up for a month’s smoking on a high-end vaporization device; and that’s only half the story. Vaporizing technology is always in development. There were disposable e-cigarettes, then vape pens, now vape mods are en vogue and getting cooler every day–check this out.
Health Benefits
Vape technology isn’t a health “get out of jail free” card. There are still conditions associated with it like popcorn lung. In general, though, conditions associated with vaping tend to be less severe 
when compared against smoking. You’re not going to get burned or chapped lips vaping. You’re not going to have smelly nicotine stains on the fingers you smoke with. The smoke isn’t going to linger throughout your hair and clothes. It’s not going to dry your skin out, either. Generally, vaping is much more healthy than any kind of herbal smoking, though again as a vice it isn’t the most recommendable thing to maintain a body in perfect health.
Environmental Impact
What do the ladies like? You know what the ladies like; they like a man who knows how to treat the environment well. They like a man who’s environmentally conscious–that’s the word on the street these days, anyhow. Sure, vaping isn’t entirely clean, but it’s much cleaner than smoking. Look, you ever go into an alley and see it littered with spent vaporization equipment? No you do not. You ever see a park with vaporization butts just lying around like there was some kind of war between brands? You do not. But anywhere there are people, there are cigarette butts. Cotton, paper, and bits of tobacco constitute cigarette butts; and they’re harmful to the environment as a whole. So not only is smoking more expensive and less healthy, it’s also a lot harder on the environment than vaporization technology is . And, last but not least, it doesn’t look nearly so cool.
The Chic Smoker
Vape technology has a style to it that can’t’ be denied. It’s the 21st century. We don’t have flying cars or jet-packs, but by goodness we’ve got futuristic smoking and communicators like Star Trek–we just call ’em smartphones. Kidding aside, vaporization technology has a sexy kind of flair to it which is uniquely modern, and the kind of thing to define a generation, boosting popularity. The early aught of this century will be remembered as the days of vapor, and for good reason: vaporization technology has become one of the world’s most popular ways of tobacco ingestion. Furthermore, the trend’s rising–so why not save your health, money and the environment while being stylish?
Staff Writer; Bobby Hill