> I have an intense personal dislike of smoking.

If you ever lived in an apartment with a neighbor who smokes, it turns from intense personal dislike to pure hate. I will never understand how people can smoke in their homes. It literally turns your house into an ashtray.

> I'm no fan of vaping, but as an intermediate step to the elimination of smoking, it is a necessary evil.

Unless it turns out to be more toxic.

The problem I see is that society seems to turning away from cigarettes and more towards weed and other type of obnoxious drug use.