Oddly enough, I’ll bet the vape record beats the shit out of it.
Why do you think that? I would expect vape to cause fewer lung cancers.
For example, cigarette smoke is rich in benzopyrene (which is mostly absent in vape, but still present in small quantities). In the lungs, benzopyrene reacts with cell DNA in a way that causes G bases to convert to thymine bases. Sometimes the conversion happens on the P53 (tumor suppressor) gene, leading to cancer.
It's thought that benzopyrene causes about a third of the lung cancer tumors. Of course, there are other carcinogens (60 or more) in cigarettes. Vape is still a health problem for the user, but it's better than cigarettes because there are fewer carcinogens.
I absolutely loathe people who gotta bring up their highly fashionable attention book in the middle of a discussion. Usually citing it knowing that there's little chance the rest of the room has read it, often in bad faith or with poor comprehension.
Often an appropriate series of questions can help bring them back as a contributory conversation member.
Read a book. - God no, boring as fuck.
That actually explains a lot about you.
How do you respond when people observe that you only read books to impress people?
I send them this video (alt="Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer").
How about when some 3rd party writes an article about literary readers, claiming that nobody reads books except to point out to people socially that they read so they can feel intellectually superior?
People who read books are intellectually superior, they should feel that way. Even those people who only read them to impress people are more knowledgeable than people who haven't read...those people aren't the best, but they have more knowledge than people who only watch things like bachelor, and don't read. If you're entire worldview is created by daytime TV and Netflix, then you are only pitiable.
If people can discuss what they've read, they are more likely to be interesting than people who haven't read.
And this is fact: if more Americans read in order to impress people or for any reason, we wouldn't have president Trump.
. Life was so placid when we had Biden or Obama or George Bush.
Life was not placid under Bush, if it wasn't yellowcake, it was warcrimes. Domestically he wanted to get rid of social security. We're lucky he got shut down by congress his second term.
Their old employees were almost certainly good employees. Otherwise they would have fired them BEFORE the take over.
This is far from certain. Often when a company wants to be bought, they hire people to lead purchasers to believe they are growing faster than reality. Caveat emptor.
Waste not, get your budget cut next year.