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Even when smoking is conclusively proved to cause cancer and grotesque pictures of what your lungs will look like are displayed on the pack, people still ignore it and just smoke anyway. I think this effect is partly why people ignore or try and dismiss any possible evidence that this technology could indeed be causing harm. The NTP study has taken a lot of flak in the name of 'discerning' science,but as far as I can see none of it is deserved. (Original authors have responded thoroughly - so much so that they have done video presentation- on youtube)

actually all technology is, in a way, deliberately addictive because it is designed to make people money and not explicitly designed to create greater well being. The story they use to sell it is that it is to improve your life but nowadays its almost impossible to actually reject this concept. People once lived happily without tech, but now it seems most people 'would die' without it.