>Vaping has reversed 20+ years of anti-smoking efforts in high schools. This is a problem. Citation needed. >Vaping is seems safer than smoking but this is me

>Vaping has reversed 20+ years of anti-smoking efforts in high schools. This is a problem. Citation needed. >Vaping is seems safer than smoking but this is medically unproven. The research is robust enough for the UK to encourage vaping over smoking. Perhaps not being lobbied by big tobacco is the only real difference between the state of public health guidance in both countries. >Vaping is NOT safer than not-Vaping and not-Smoking. I’ve yet to meet anyone that has suggested such a thing. >The vaping companies ran the Big Tobacco playbook to exactly the same effect. It is unsurprising that their opponents are running their playbook to stop them. Juul, backed by a big tobacco corp has ran their playbook. Can you name a major company that isn’t backed a tobacco company? The cynic in me expects it was to force the public to demand the fda create new regs that can allow big tobacco to catch up and capture the market. This conversation is also pointless without bringing up the perverse incentives that tobacco taxes have on regulators and politicians. Ending tobacco use is bad for politicians because they’ll need to balance the budget by cutting services and raising taxes on everyone instead of offloading the burden to a marginalized group of disproportionately poor people. Fear mongering about children vaping is a recycled to trick to manufacture consent among the public for extortionate and regressive taxes. Alcohol, gambling and similar taxes are just perverse.