Washington Examiner - Don’t panic: Tobacco harm reduction saves lives

[LoveVanilla]

A well written and worthy read:

Don’t panic: Tobacco harm reduction saves lives

First, let’s put the alleged danger of e-cigarettes into perspective. Fifty-two people have died from the so-called “vaping lung illness” nationwide. In comparison, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attribute 480,000 deaths to smoking in the United States each year. That means that around 25 times more people die from smoking every day than have died from the entirety of the current outbreak. From a public health perspective, providing smokers with every opportunity to quit, including the use of flavored e-cigarettes that many adult smokers find most appealing, should be our greatest priority.

Could cigarette smoking vanish in the U.S. too? Yes, if we allow vaping to compete with it. Banning flavors and exaggerating dangers will create black markets and perpetuate smoking. Instead, we should strike the same bargain we do for alcohol and, increasingly, marijuana: strong enforcement of rules against underage sales tempered by respect for free adults to make their own choices about what they put into their bodies.

 

[Steamix]

A voice of reason in the cacophony of irrationality...

 

[somdcomputerguy]

A well written and worthy read:

Don’t panic: tobacco harm reduction saves lives

Don’t panic: Tobacco harm reduction saves lives

 

[Cool_Breeze]

Bad idea...comparing deaths...