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Long overdue. Vaping should be regulated much like smoking. It has the same deleterious side effects for individuals as smoking, and much the same negative impa
by glitchc 8y ago
Long overdue. Vaping should be regulated much like smoking. It has the same deleterious side effects for individuals as smoking, and much the same negative impact on society (through second hand smoke).
- selectodude 8y agoThat isn’t even slightly true and it’s nonsense like this that is going to kill people when they switch back to smoking cigarettes.
- glitchc 8y agoUtter rubbish. The research has just begun and it will take a while to conduct epidemiology studies (basically we have to wait for people to die from e-cigs), but the prognosis is already poor. Here's one study from this year: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/01/25/1718185115 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/01/25/1718185115
- gradys 8y agoWhat do you consider the strongest sources for those claims, especially the second hand smoke claim?
- lightyrs 8y agoThe Royal College of Physicians strongly disagrees with you. This is the same group that sounded the alarm on cigarettes in 1962 with their groundbreaking report "Smoking and health" [1]. Their 2016 report, "Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction" [2] stands in staunch disagreement with your statement. [1] https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/smoking-and-health-1962 https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/smoking-and-hea... [2] https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-without-smoke-tobacco-harm-reduction-0 https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-withou...
- glitchc 8y agoThanks for the article, will read at home. The conclusion isn't unanimous however.
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