> It's a very simple equation: allow Juul and get more people off cigarettes. Ban Juul and increase smoking rates. It's amazing how obtuse people (and the gover

> It's a very simple equation: allow Juul and get more people off cigarettes. Ban Juul and increase smoking rates. It's amazing how obtuse people (and the government) are on the subject. I am actually not so sure about this. Cigarettes smoking rates have been falling consistently for many years, youth smoking rates were up in the 90's but fell before vaping / e-cigarettes hit the market. Smokers also since 1980 have been smoking less cigarettes per day. There is a significant amount of high school students that starts with e-cigarettes, and doesn't use them to quit anything else. Statistics don't seem to indicate that these children would have smoked cigarettes if they wouldn't have access to e-cigarettes. One also could argue that this potentially makes cigarette adoption higher for this population, because they are already used to nicotine and smoking/vaping. All in all, it's not as simple as you make it out to be. https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco-trends-brief/overall-tobacco-trends https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco...