Name: Is Vaping Better Than Smoking Cigarettes?
Uploaded: 2021-12-28T22:52:13.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is Vaping Better Than Smoking Cigarettes?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-12-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is Vaping Better Than Smoking Cigarettes?' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-12-28. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience. Are you a nicotine addict? No, I just... Is that Juul
with marijuana? No, it's a Juul with nicotine.
Oh. Yeah, I guess I am a nicotine addict sometimes. How long have you been
doing that? A little while. But...
The thing is... You don't smoke cigarettes, do you? I... I... That could roughen
up that voice, Kate. I know, it's so bad. Be careful.
Well, this isn't good for my voice either. Be careful. I think that's basically
gonna just kill your body. Don't fucking know it.
I think it's gonna mess up your voice. I think it's gonna kill your neurons.
Yeah, no, I have rules, like I'm gonna put this down in like a week and then I'll
just be away. No more.
I don't... I think it's probably better. You know, there's a problem it gets
demonized. When something gets demonized, I have to say, "Okay, are they demonizing
this because it's actually bad, or are they demonizing this because it's a
threat to profits for an established company that has a shit ton of money?"
One of the things I talked to Adam Curry. You know Adam Curry? Okay, yes. You
know he is? I love No Agenda.
He's the best. He's the podfather. Yeah, I'm a big fan. I really like him a lot.
If not for him, none of this would be possible. And John C. Dvorak. I like when
they have their little fights.
Well, they're super smart guys and Adam is a good friend. I love him to death.
Awesome!
I love him to death. Oh my God. He's one of the reasons why I came here, like
talking to him. He's so smart. When he was high on Austin, I was like, "Okay,
maybe he's on something."
But anyway, like he talked to me about this and he said a lot of this was based
on a bunch of people who died, a group of kids that died from bad e-cigarettes
that were actually marijuana cigarettes.
Oh, does he? He smokes these things, right? I do not know if he does that
anymore. He may have in the past. I'm not exactly sure. He smokes a lot of weed
though.
Good for him. That motherfucker can throw down. See if you can find what that
story was, Jamie? There was like, it was, there were e-cigarette, but it was e-weed
and so they were attributing it to vaping.
They were saying all these kids died from vaping. And he's like, no, no, no. It
was a small group of kids that died because there was a tainted product.
And he said, I don't, I don't think I'm paraphrasing him. I think he was saying
that it's one of those things, like we talked about earlier, it's either the
outrage is because something is really, really dangerous or the outrage is
because something threatens profits of something else.
And I should just, out of the way, I'm a hundred percent in favor of you buying
cigarettes.
I smoke cigars. I think you should, I drink whiskey. It's not good for you.
When the mood strikes, I'll buy a pack and then I'll go months without smoking.
It's just like a thing about, it grounds me, I think.
But, but, but, but I think he was saying that we have this idea that it's
really bad to vape and it might not exactly be true.
This is the CDC's website, but I remember this, this is the vitamin E stuff
they found it.
Okay. This is it. Vitamin E acetate is strongly linked to EVALI outbreak.
I don't know what that means. Vitamin E acetate has been found in product
samples tested by the FDA and state laboratories and in patient lung fluid
samples tested by CDC.
From geographically diverse states, vitamin E acetate has not been found in the
lung fluid of people that do not have whatever EVALI is.
Do you see if you can find that story with, there was kids that died and they
died from, uh, tainted, uh, that's this, but is there a story that says,
I mean, this is the CDC looking in that they had to write this because they
looked into it.
Cause it was a outbreak, like it was a thing. Right. It was a national issue.
So is this the, the story of the, okay.
So it says at the top, when you scroll up, it says outbreak of lung injury
associated with the use of e-cigarette or vaping products.
I guess I'm looking for like a dumb story and this is like a, a page of a, uh,
the government CDC site.
The thing is Joe, like it's really difficult to decide what's real. Like, you
know, you hear a story,
you see a story on the internet and, and, and maybe it's true. Maybe it's not
like, I don't, it's like you said, it's, it's major commerce.
Look at this though. The mysterious vaping illness, that's becoming an epidemic.
A surge of severe lung
ailments has baffled doctors and public health experts. Okay. Here's one thing
I do know. I do
know of a family who had a young son who was a teenager who died and they think
it has a connection
to vaping. He got very sick and he had some sort of a lung issue. And I gotta
imagine that if you're
doing it all day long, like a lot of these kids are, they're doing it all day.
Like if you can give
a kid something where you give them, which is a nicotine is essentially, is it
listed as a stimulant?
Yes. Is it a stimulant? Yes. Is that what they call it?
Yeah. And it makes you feel so good.
Nicotine gives you the greatest head rush. I love a cigar.
Jamie, do you still smoke? Good for you.
I was going to add into this, which I don't know. I know that I, from when this
happened,
whoever was getting them or I noticed a national thing. So lots of people that
were getting the
actual cartridges that they were putting the juice or the oil or what have you
in.
Yeah.
Those were where the issues started, I think. Like the cartridges themselves
were bad.
Right. Yes. I think they said they were like contaminated or something. There
was something
wrong with them, right?
Right. And that's why I remember they were saying they were coming from China
or that's
fine. I don't know. Well, it's like everything else. If it was regulated, like
if you could only get a
version of it where there was some sort of, okay, here, potential culprits in
mystery lung illness,
black market vaping products. So this is some lung illnesses. Is that what it
is? Is that what they're
saying? It got so confused because it just started popping up. They're called
popcorn lung and all sorts of
weird things. But here's the thing. I think if you're doing, if you're doing
anything like that all day
long, if you're taking any mist into your body that has chemicals in it, which
is essentially what
those things are, those ones that look like a lunch box and these kids are
sucking on them and they
make giant clouds of smoke. Those kids are taking in stimulants through their
blood vessels all day
long. Yeah. In the long, they're sucking into their lungs. All I can say is I
know if I do this too
much, I don't feel well. So, and that's something to be conscious of. Like me
with pie. Yeah, like your
pie. Exactly. Yeah, my situation with eating too much pie. So, you know, like
right now I'm kind of like in
holiday mode. Um, and, and just in general, like my cell phone, like I don't
like when something has a
hold on me. I don't like when I wake up and I'm having my coffee and I'm like,
where's my fucking jewel?
Yeah. I don't like that.