Forbes: The War Against E-Cigarettes Is Profoundly Wrong

[LoveVanilla]

The War Against E-Cigarettes Is Profoundly Wrong

The truth is that vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking. It lets users get nicotine without all the other carcinogenic contents and carbon monoxide that come from smoking cigarettes. vaping is far more effective in helping people quit inhaling tobacco than are all the other props, including nicotine patches. Moreover, with many vaping devices, users can choose the level of nicotine they vape, including none at all. Vaping has enabled countless numbers of smokers to give up cigarettes and countless others not to take them up in the first place, thereby saving millions of lives.

Banning e-cigarettes, prohibiting flavored versions or imposing draconian taxes (as a number of pols in Congress and elsewhere are pushing for) would have two bad results: more people smoking traditional—and highly lethal—cigarettes, and the rise of black markets for flavored e-cigarettes, with all the risks of unsafe versions that that would entail.

 

[somdcomputerguy]

I do have a problem with the first sentence of the second paragragh, "Those deaths we hear about didn’t result from normal e-cigarettes but from tainted contents, particularly the active ingredient found in cannabis.". The 'active ingredient' referred to might be THC, which is found in cannabis, but wasn't the cause of the 'deaths we heard about'. The contents of those cartridges were tainted by the addition of vitamin E acetate, which is not found in cannabis. Although the cartridges were used on mods, or 'vape batteries', or however ones wishes to label a device such as that, they weren't e-cigarettes either.

 

[kayakiit]

The War Against E-Cigarettes Is Profoundly Wrong

I'm so glad to see a widespread and well-trusted source sharing this opinion for anyone in the general public who may not have considered it. Thanks for sharing!