Nice article from tech site The Register about the end of smoking.....
Tobacco giant predicts the end of smoking. Panic ensues
"But public health does not appear to be a priority for the many in Public Health, just as saving the planet wasn’t really the priority for people who said they wanted to Save The Planet. The WHO wants a global ban on smoking substitutes like e-cigarettes. Wales banned vaping on the grounds of "normalisation": a non-smoker watching someone put a cumbersome contraption to their mouths, and exhale perfumed steam would think: “That’s so cool. Now I must start smoking.” vaping isn’t cool, and people who already think smoking is cool tend to go straight for the cigarettes.
Perhaps it's dawned on the more fanatical Public Health campaigners that the end is in sight, and a new cause is needed. The death of cigarettes will happen not because of Public Health, but because a superior technology came along to replace them. And you can bet ex-smokers who quit in spite of them won’t thank be thanking Public Health for prolonging the life of the combustible cigarette. ®"
Tobacco giant predicts the end of smoking. Panic ensues
"But public health does not appear to be a priority for the many in Public Health, just as saving the planet wasn’t really the priority for people who said they wanted to Save The Planet. The WHO wants a global ban on smoking substitutes like e-cigarettes. Wales banned vaping on the grounds of "normalisation": a non-smoker watching someone put a cumbersome contraption to their mouths, and exhale perfumed steam would think: “That’s so cool. Now I must start smoking.” vaping isn’t cool, and people who already think smoking is cool tend to go straight for the cigarettes.
Perhaps it's dawned on the more fanatical Public Health campaigners that the end is in sight, and a new cause is needed. The death of cigarettes will happen not because of Public Health, but because a superior technology came along to replace them. And you can bet ex-smokers who quit in spite of them won’t thank be thanking Public Health for prolonging the life of the combustible cigarette. ®"
