The War on Vaping

The smoking of tobacco has seen a decline from the popularity it held at the beginning of the 20th century. In the 1950s and 60s, 40% of Americans smoked tobacco, while now that number has dropped to about 15%. Public health initiatives have demonstrated the ill-health of smoking, and people have listened to the science. Half of those who smoke get killed by their nasty habit, and most who don't stop are statistically of low-income and less educated.

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One thing that helps smokers quit are electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) which vaporize nicotine. These are 95% less harmful than regular cigarettes. This could reduce deaths from smoking by 21% for people born after 1997 and not yet having smoked as long as previous generations. But the FDA had initiated a war of vaping in 2016 with the "Deeming Rule", where vaping products require a preapproval process that is expensive. Companies have to pay $330,000 and file 20 applications per product. Many companies couldn't comply with such ludicrous demands and stopped making products for consumers.

The New York City Council voted to reduce the number of vape shops in NYC in August 2017 and ban new shops from opening. Many vape shop owners are former smokers who stopped thanks to e-cigs and saved their health or lives as a result. Now they can't help offer the same products to others to get them to stop smoking tobacco. This also puts these entrepreneurs out of business and lets big tobacco keep making more profits while hurting more people.

A sham study from about how e-cigs had more formaldehyde than regular cigarettes seems to be the culprit behind much of these moves. But public memory is short and doesn't follow up on news stories. Vaping was seen as even more dangerous than cigarettes.

More than 2 million Americans have quit smoking thanks to vaping, while tobacco smoking is estimated to kill about 480,000 people each year in the U.S. There are many health benefits when you don't consume hundreds of toxins and dozens of carcinogens in regular cigarettes. Vaping should be a promoted alternative to tobacco smoking.

Rather than trying to reduce consumption of nicotine through very unhealthy cigarettes by allowing vaporizer smoking that is less unhealthy, some people want to stop nicotine smoking altogether. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is one such person who wants the FDA to start regulating the industry in the name of the children or adolescents who have an e-cig addiction.

To really get a nicotine free world, it would seem best to get people to switch to a better alternative to help them quit, no? This seems to just play into the hands of big tobacco, and not really help people get off of smoking. Kids can still get cigarettes that are worse if e-cigs are harder to get. It's better to not smoke anything, but it's better for teenagers to not smoke cigarettes. But who cares about that when you are out to control and spend "legally" stolen money called taxes in order to "fight" this new war.

A war on substances always works out for the best interest of the people, right? The drug war has gone so well, with so much money funneled into it. Of course the war on vaping isn't as harsh, but restricting its use keeps people smoking tobacco.

Do you smoke tobacco? If so, have you tried to switch to e-cigs? If not, you might want to consider it ;)

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References:

• The FDA's War on Vaping Will Cost Millions of Lives
• NYC ignores science in war on vaping
• The War on Vaping is About MONEY –– NOT Your Well Being
• The Government's Dumb War on Vaping

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