WSJ: Smoking Sales of regular cigarettes are expected to improve

[LoveVanilla]

Good story. Read through but then got logon. And couldn't pull quotes. One akin to "Not the results FDA wants". Also pointed out the direct harm of demonizing by government and media (which makes me hot under the collar). Maybe message is getting heard. If you can read, post a few quotes.

Vaping Bans Raise Fear of Return to Smoking
Sales of regular cigarettes are expected to improve as a result of e-cigarette restrictions

 

[bombastinator]

“Derp... well gee... the cigarette companies have been agitating for this for many years so... let’s pretend we’re surprised.”

 

[Rossum]

To read: Open an incognito window without ad-blocking. Google the headline and click the link in Google's results.

“These flavored products are more desirable and delude people into thinking it’s safer,” Louis DePalo, a pulmonologist at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, said. “If you’re making it less fun, you’re moving in the right direction.”

First off, there's no doubt it's safer (which is not the same as claiming it's "safe"). Secondly, if you make it "less fun", you dramatically decrease the chance that people will successfully switch from combustible cigarettes. One of the reasons vaping works for so many for whom other forms of NRT failed is because it is enjoyable, i.e. "fun".

A poll of 1,205 adults released by the Kaiser Family Foundation last week found roughly 52% supported banning flavors, and 49% supported total vaping bans.

So? We ostensibly live in a society where the desires of the majority are not supposed to be able to trample the rights of a minority.

All in all, it's a pretty decent article though.

 

[Robbob]

So? We ostensibly live in a society where the desires of the majority are not supposed to be able to trample the rights of a minority.

We live in a society of sheep, which are herded to and fro by click bait media and propaganda.