This is purely anecdotal but I have made the switch almost a year ago, also by "accident" after buying a starter kit to see what this thing was people around me

This is purely anecdotal but I have made the switch almost a year ago, also by "accident" after buying a starter kit to see what this thing was people around me started doing. Without actively trying to quit I just was not interested in regular cigarettes shortly after and managed to lower my nicotine content from 24mg to 6mg and am now planning to go lower with the next batch of liquid that I will order. This was after many failed attempts to quit from around a pack a day with the longest cessation time being around half a year. I don't think that vaping is harmless and I would not be surprised there are adverse long time health risks. But compared to real cigarettes this was a godsend for me. It is much cheaper, it does not have that disgusting smell, and it is much easier from the logistics side compared to having to buy cigarettes every day, feeling like some lowlife addict in the process. What I have now is a hobby, tinkering with my devices, building coils, trying juices (since some time I got rid of any flavours and just vape pure VG/PG). Gone is most of the shortness of breath when working out, disgusting mouthfeel in the morning, cold hands and feet and this permanent feeling of being poisoned. I gave my father a starter-kit for Christmas and he managed to quit cigarettes completely on that very day after heavily smoking for 30 years, trying to quit and suffering from the effects of smoking much more than a relatively young person does. I might have saved his life that day. So yes, maybe vaping is bad, maybe it will kill you when you are not able to quit timely. But the time spend with the addiction is a whole lot more pleasant with vaping than with cigarettes and I cannot imagine it being remotely as deadly as smoke/tar. Banning vaping because of unknown health risks is complete madness in my opinion.