I dislike smoking and e-cigs, but by any accounting, e-cigs greatly benefit public health. Vaping is far less harmful than smoking tobacco, and around 70% of va

I dislike smoking and e-cigs, but by any accounting, e-cigs greatly benefit public health. Vaping is far less harmful than smoking tobacco, and around 70% of vapers are former smokers. When you plug in reasonable numbers for smoking vs vaping deaths[1]: > ...if a public e-cigarette ban reduces the number of smokers who switch to e-cigarettes by 2%, you’ve just killed an extra 9000 people per year... So if anything, e-cigs should be subsidized, not banned. 1. http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-something-ambiguously-between-smoking-and-not-smoking/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/28/thank-you-for-doing-som...