I get it: Electronic cigarettes don’t belong in the hands of kids. I also understand they shouldn’t be marketed to minors. I also understand the power of marketing, and the temptation to target certain demographics is strong.
That aside, can we cancel – or at least put on hold -- the hysteria over this product? There are free-market principles potentially at stake here.
Critics pooh-pooh the lack of evidence of any health hazards to vaping, or “second-hand” exposure to the vapor, so they move on to speculation, including that it might “lead to” tobacco use. In so doing, they expose the arbitrariness of their rules.
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