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Commercial nicotine vaping is perhaps 95% less dangerous than smoking (maybe more)[0]. There has been a bizarre crusade against vaping from public health and m
by didgeoridoo 4y ago
Commercial nicotine vaping is perhaps 95% less dangerous than smoking (maybe more)[0].
There has been a bizarre crusade against vaping from public health and medical authorities for the last decade. This campaign relies mostly on misleading stats and fear tactics (for example, conflating bootleg THC cartridges using vitamin E acetate with much safer commercially-available nicotine cartridges). Looks like New Zealand saw through that at least.
[0]: https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-without-smoke-tobacco-harm-reduction https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-withou...
- ceejayoz 4y ago> There has been a bizarre crusade against vaping from public health and medical authorities for the last decade. Going from smoking to vaping has a very clear, positive benefit. There's concern that kids who wouldn't have taken up smoking are taking up vaping, though, which is fairly reasonable. In a perfect world, vaping might be a prescription smoking cessation tool, but in a realistic one it's gonna be impossible to keep it out of non-smokers hands.
- didgeoridoo 4y agoAgree, but GP comment implied that smoking and vaping have the same health impact, which they very clearly do not. I assume this is a result of consuming misleading content from trusted sources. Lying about science is kind of how we got into a lot of the trouble we’re in. I wish public health communicators would knock it off.
- ceejayoz 4y agoI think we're reading that comment very differently; I read it as "the legislative end result", not the health one. That eventually vaping is likely to be similarly banned once there are no tobacco smokers.