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Behind the push to make smoking and vaping illegal for a generation of Canadians
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Also the other history notr: we literally did win against cigarettes with public health interventions.
Then we defunded public health and for some reason aslo took a decade to start treating vaping as smoking.
Treating vaping like smoking is wrong, though. They are nothing alike besides containing nicotine.
And you can't even compare that because the forms of nicotine are different. The one used in modern vapes is only about 12% as bioavailable as the nicotine in tobacco.
Vaping is 95% less harmful, but there's a gigantic misinformation campaign against it. Most studies that show that vaping produces harmful substances either had methodology that was designed to produce harmful results by using the devices in ways humans wouldn't, or the scientific reporting on the study grossly misrepresented the findings to make vapes sound scary.
You underestimated the risk factor of the delivery method.
Cigarettes are not only cancerous because of the content but also the fact that you're breathing in burnt material.
Nicotine has a threshold for addiction. A lot of vapes go over it. And the companies complain when they are forced to produce nonaddictive products.
More disinformation comes from the vaping industry. How has the finacial incentive to suppress vaping? Even tobacco companies own vape products so they are not being hurt.
Public health interventions can do far more than banning! The reason it tooks so long to treat vaping as smoking is the far lesser danger of vaping for health (if you put aside the US studies).