FINALLY " TRUTH "

[YoursTruli]

It's all temporary anyway, isn't it? If the statistics are accurate, the number of young people smoking cigarettes these days is tiny. It won't be all that long before it's just not profitable to sell them anymore; not in Western countries anyway. Nearly all vapers are people quitting or reducing smoking, right? So the whole business will dry up, too. It's all short-term, the profits & the taxes & all. Why ban something when it's going to disappear anyway and when doing so would cost a politician a lot of votes in the meantime?

speaking of statics... As vaping rates continue to decline smoking rates/cigarette sales flattened out and have begun to increase and that's just in a scant few year period. As vaping becomes less attractive and less available, ANTZ lie propaganda, flavor bans, vape mail bans, high taxes... smoking will continue on its upward trend, it's not going anywhere.

A growing number of Americans say that vaping e-cigarettes is at least as harmful as smoking traditional cigarettes.
Reuters/Ipsos poll 2019 63% - That is up 16 percentage points from a similar Reuters/Ipsos poll that ran in the spring of 2016

U.S. Treasury Department data showing cigarette sales increased 1% in 2020 after dropping 4 to 5% each year since 2015.

 

[MLEJ]

As vaping becomes less attractive and less available, ANTZ lie propaganda, flavor bans, vape mail bans, high taxes... smoking will continue on its upward trend, it's not going anywhere.

That certainly could be so. Looking only at young adults, though, what's the reported smoking rate? About 5%? High-schoolers? A little over 1%? And anti-smoking measures haven't let up.

U.S. Treasury Department data showing cigarette sales increased 1% in 2020 after dropping 4 to 5% each year since 2015.

my guess is that Covid lockdowns caused a slight blip -- smokers smoking more, recent quitters going back. Not really a trend.
We'll see...