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SPOTLIGHT:
Kara Tibbetts
Kara is a pro-vape advocate and activist from Rhode
Island. In this article she explains why she believes it’s
up to the US government to send the right message to
smokers – that vaping is not the enemy.
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F E AT U R E S
It was vaping that led me to quit smoking cigarettes
when I was 18 years old. I’d started smoking when
I was 15 but when I found vaping I never looked
back. I actually got a job at my local vape shop and
that was my start in the industry, then I just started
getting more heavily involved in it.
I felt a real sense of passion when it came to vaping
because I’d watched my mom almost die from fi ve
different types of smoking-related cancers, so
whenever I lit up I felt guilty thinking about her.
Honestly, it’s hard for me to fi nd the words to
explain how I feel about the situation in the US
right now. This whole thing goes a lot deeper than
vaping. It’s a blatant violation of our rights as
American citizens and this is not what being an
American is about; this is not what our country was
founded upon.
Our government has been blatantly lying to the
public and it makes me sick that government
bodies like the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) can put out headlines lying to
their citizens. They apologised but that’s not good