Guardian: The great vape debate: saving smokers or creating new addicts?

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The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts?

From late January, it became illegal to sell e-cigarettes and e-liquids in San Francisco. Even online sales to addresses within the city limits have been stopped. Stores outside the city that dispatch e-cigarettes to an SF postcode will face prosecution.

While vaping is banned, sales of legal marijuana and tobacco will continue as usual.

All sides agree that vaping nicotine is safer than getting it from cigarettes. Nicotine by itself is “relatively harmless”, according to the NHS, while the harm from cigarettes is in the smoke produced by burning tobacco and the residue of tar it leaves, which damages the airways, causing lung disease and cancer.

In the US, the debate is dominated by those who believe people should “just say no” to drugs.

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