According to our national health institute vaping doesn’t actually help people quit smoking, and this is an area we take rather serious in Denmark because we ge

According to our national health institute vaping doesn’t actually help people quit smoking, and this is an area we take rather serious in Denmark because we genuinely want people to smoking all together. There is no evidence to show that it’s safer either. It may be, but we’ll need to wait a few decades to see what the long term effects on the population actually are. So it would be rather silly for the WHO to invest billions in moving people from one ”tobacco” industry to another at this point. Even if we assume it’s safe, I’m not sure your suggestion is really sound. There is no evidence suggesting that smokers are actually that expensive to a society. Yes, they tax the healthcare system making up as much as 70-80% of the total expenses in some countries, but they also live shorter. There isn’t actual science on this, because it’s highly immoral, but the biggest expense of a lot of western countries isn’t healthcare, it’s elderly care, and that’s an area that benefits greatly if you die in your seventies after a relatively short period of lung cancer as smokers are prone to do.