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It’s December, which means two things. You’re going to hear a lot of Bruce Springsteen singing “Merry Christmas Baby,” and you’re going to see a lot of reflections on the significance of the year almost-past. And who are we to break from tradition? Each day this month, we will roll out new nuggets of wisdom gleaned from 2015, alphabetized for your reading pleasure.

V is for VAPING

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While it wouldn’t be prudent to come out swinging against a device whose intended purpose is to help smokers quit: man oh man is vaping ever the worst. It was one thing when smokers were turning to what were then called e-cigarettes, smoking flavoured vapour as a cessation aid; now, vaping is as cool as smoking was in the 1950s, being taken up by non-smokers with great enthusiasm, but little purpose.

Vapers — the ones who aren’t using the device to quit smoking — say they do it for the oral fixation, to do smoke tricks, for the social aspect. But mostly, they do it to look cool: vaping is in, and one need look no further than The Wknd, who last month released his own line of e-cigs and vaping liquids.