hello got a quick question for you do
you've a p-- thank you to Health Canada
for sponsoring this video but as always
100 percent of thoughts and opinions are
my own laws of nature they are the
unavoidable forces that govern our
universe ensure in physics class you may
have heard of something like
electromagnetism or gravity but today I
am going to talk to you about my
favorite inevitability the law of
unintended consequences now the law of
unintended consequences is exactly what
it sounds like a person does a thing for
a reason and then something unintended
happens now there are a whole bunch of
types of unintended consequences but my
favorite is probably the perverse result
mainly because it's also known as the
cobra effect yes I mean anyway the cobra
effect is when the action has the exact
opposite effect than the one desired it
got its name from this anecdote that
takes place during the crown rule of
India basically the British were like
there are too many snakes and so they
sent a bounty on dead Cobras basically
people can kill a cobra bring it in and
get money which was great until people
started farming Cobras instead of
hunting wild ones which totally defeated
the purpose and when the British were
like this is not ideal and scrapped the
bounty all of the Cobra farmers were
like oh well and freed their remaining
Cobras the purpose of action was to put
a bounty on snakes the intended outcome
was less snakes the actual outcome was
more snakes but that's just the story
told in economics classes and I couldn't
find any evidence of this Cobra story
besides a podcast so do prefers results
actually exists you bet they do let's
talk about vaping whether you were
scrolling through Instagram or just
walking down the street you have
definitely encountered somebody vaping
before maybe you
being hit with that sweet fruity scent
of a vape cloud followed by the
immediate realization that you just
inhaled someone's vape cloud but today's
modern trend of vape had some pretty
humble beginnings now there are a couple
of origin stories for the first vape but
the most popular belongs to Han Lee he
was a pretty heavy smoker and one day he
thought you know what maybe I shouldn't
and he gets dead set on this idea that
in order to get smokers to stop smoking
traditional cigarettes they needed a
bridge that was less jarring than a
nicotine patch they needed something
that's still pretty similar to smoking
but safer so Han takes action and
invents his own electronic cigarette the
first vape what could go wrong hey hey
Carl got a quick question for you
do you've a p' hey there its future
editing sabrina over here coming in to
say that that guy on the phone is my
little cousin Carl I've known him since
he was literally a baby anyway we're
gonna call him my official youth
correspondent and I just want it to be
known that everything he says is his own
opinion it's not Health Canada's I
didn't fact check it so keep that in
mind
now back to the video so assume your mom
isn't gonna watch this video do you know
what a vape is yeah do you know anyone
who very expect like classmates or like
older people
classmates included then huh oh gosh I
feel like a narc I feel like a narc
right now how how old are you again I'm
a bad cousin
I don't know this how old are you
so and all of this do you or any of your
classmates ever consider the fact that
vaping might be dangerous
of course like I mean like you know how
like on the wall things like cigarette
your dad's office just put that really
now not many people smoke cigarette yeah
so with all those signs around why why
are people still doing it I mean people
get addicted so it's pretty much well
just take it are you getting stoic at
the very and his answers match up pretty
well with Health Canada's Canadian
student tobacco alcohol and drugs survey
which other than having a very long name
is this anonymous questionnaire that
students from across the country in
grades 7 to 12 fill out I remember doing
one a gym class and realizing that I do
literally nothing no drugs no smoking no
physical activity anyway the survey
showed that in just the past few years
the number of students who have tried
e-cigarettes has grown by 23% nationwide
that's about four hundred and seventy
thousand kids and this stands in stark
contrast to the recent historic lows of
traditional cigarette use by students so
you gotta ask what makes them want to
try have you ever been tempted to try
vaping yeah well you have people around
you that are already doing it it's just
so easy to get a grasp those right so
it's right there in front of you
pretty much so do you only want to try
it because it's there well
I don't know there's a lot of people who
tell you different things about it very
like some people tell you what happened
let's just say no and does anyone ever
talk about nicotine in what way like in
the way that it's an addictive chemical
no they talk about how much nicotine is
in the juice so that they can buy the
highest substance please so it's like a
competition no not necessarily it's just
like people are just addicted to the
point some people are like huh this
isn't working
I better go higher and all of that isn't
the coincidence maybe you have a friend
and you want to try their vape just to
give it a shot
joke about doing a vape trick or make a
meme reference and then a little while
later you try again and again and again
and again and you realize you haven't
always checked if your friends are
vaping with nicotine or not but you kind
of just want to try again
and that's the thing in a lot of cases
vaping is just a mechanism to nicotine
which is an addictive chemical and
there's two big problems with that one
nicotine can alter teen brain
development which is a pretty freaky
thing to think about and to even if some
vapes don't contain nicotine the ones
that do vary widely in amount and that
means that some baits may even contain
more nicotine than a typical cigarette
and if we're already comparing the two
nowadays it's a well-known fact that
smoking is the leading cause of
preventable disease and premature death
but nobody really knows what happens
with vaping because some of the
chemicals found in vaping liquid vape
juice I don't know it's stuff like
vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol
which are safe for use in cosmetics and
sweeteners and all that but nobody knows
the long-term safety of in
hailing them so Hollies purpose of
action was to invent the electronic
cigarette his intended outcome was to
help cull an unhealthy addiction the
actual outcome
well while smokers are saying that
vaping has helped them quit we are also
seeing more and more young people
picking up a vape and risking a future
of nicotine addiction and lung damage
that's about as perverse of a result as
you could ask for but before this video
gets too preachy
if it hasn't already let me tell you
about one last unintended consequence
it's called good hearts law named after
the British economist Charles Goodhart
the law basically states that when a
measure becomes a target it ceases to be
a good measure and I think that's the
problem with most coverage about youth
and vaping it's that it talks about
young people instead of to them every
news story I've watched an article I've
read have just been adults talking to
other adults about how all of their kids
are vaping and it's so stupid because
the whole focus is on lowering this
number in a report and it ignores the
people it's about and that's the reason
I teamed up with Health Canada for this
video it's to support their approach on
speaking directly to young people about
vaping but here's the thing I'm not here
to tell you what to do or how to live
your life I'm not your mom this video is
just asking you to think about your
actions
and remember that sometimes there might
be some unintended consequences I hope
you liked that video thank you to Health
Canada for sponsoring it and thank you
to my little cousin Carl for being young
and relevant now what about you guys
what do you think about teen vaping let
me know down below and a couple of
people have been asking what's the best
way to support my channel and my honest
answer is sharing my videos maybe this
one but either way have a lovely day