That is exactly the argument being made. My remark was about young people doing something that is idiotic (vaping to the degree they do it) who would not take

That is exactly the argument being made. My remark was about young people doing something that is idiotic (vaping to the degree they do it) who would not take a puff on a cigarette. Arguments that vaping is "less dangerous than smoking" are precisely "At least I'm not shooting heroin in my eyeballs", because at no point did I assert that they were equivalent.