Vapouround magazine Issue 08 | Page 208

FYI RED=BANNED Map of Countries Where Vaping is Banned looks like an Epidemic Outbreak (some countries which should be red are NOT shown here - i.e. Mexico) although it took them 500 pages of paper to spell-out this single demand. The act and art of vaping has become so marginalized, polarized, sensationalized, and criticized to the point where noone can relate this new technology to smokers ridding their lives of tobacco abuse. Some of the topics vaping has become associated with or integrated into, are all the same exact topics and subject areas in which Sociology spends much time researching. Vaping now deals with or is directly related to: harm reduction, social interaction, reinventing of social identity, public health intervention, technological innovation, political conflict, unconstitutional regulations, corporate corruption, widespread misinformation campaigns, cronyism, unemployment and deindustrialization. Then there’s privacy intrusion, the social media phenomenon, structural functionalism, income inequality, centralization of capital, monopolization, Conflict Theory, mass mainstream media bias, social psychological interpretation and Big Government expanding their range for abuses of authority. Alongside this is irrational argumentative frameworks, 21st Century Prohibition, Big Business greed-fueled strategy, small business expansion and elimination, the country’s quickest industrial decline, economic scientific misconduct from irresponsible publishing of false data and it has even generated traces of class warfare the Elite Bourgeois class attempting to possibly take advantage of the Proletariat working class. In simpler terms, Sociology exists within so much of what exists around us throughout the world we’ve created. Thus, Sociology