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Originally Posted by tshiggins
It probably satisfies nicotine cravings just fine; it's not as bad for one's health; and it comes in a variety of flavors. So, the potential is there for a substantial growth market, and tobacco companies on both DP-Earth and Stp-Earth will be sweating hard about what happens when the link between tobacco and cancer makes it across the void from Ip-Earth.
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The link is
known on both Earths, in the sense that the information has been conveyed, but it will be a while before scientists on both Earths are willing to admit that they've been wrong about smoking being a healthy way to clear the lungs out (apparently this was actually believed in real life in the past). They want to test the information first, and it's rather difficult to convince someone of something when they think that they'll get more money from not believing it.
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Originally Posted by tshiggins
The question is, do those two worlds have the technology to manufacture vaping devices that are both safe and affordable?
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Not as easy as on Earth-1, and with rather great difficulty on Earth-3, but a vaping pipe is possible, it's just that the ones on Earth-3 would look like a hookah with a steampunk casemod. The first marketable ones on Earth-2 are likely to be fairly heavy, and look like someone dieselpunked one of Bilbo's longer pipes from the
Rankin-Bass Hobbit cartoon (he has a collection of pipes to smoke 'pipeweed' with, but two of them are so long that they can almost rest on the ground when he has the stem in his mouth - it's possible that one only appears in the publicity material, and the other in the movie), or like a small flashlight/electric torch with a hose or pipe to vape through.