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There's much more evidence for fast food being bad for your health, and we're not up in arms about that one (collectively). I'm not _for_ vaping, necessarily -- and I don't like it in public: I'm for smoking in general to be banned from public spaces because of the way it affects other people -- but if you want to choose that in your own house, go for it.

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People have a hard time seeing what they don't have interest in could have interest to other people.

Most people don't vape, so it's much easier to get on a moral high horse and tell others what to do; there's no consequence for the majority.

If they reacted to vaping the same way to cars, coffee, sugar, fast food, etc... they would suffer a loss of freedom. And people don't like to lose their own freedom, but plenty of people are eager to restrict others.

It makes sense for me: most people don't work on self improvement so imposing self improvement on others is a way to feel that society is improving.

I hate when someone produces a cloud of vape steam in the middle of a crowd of people waiting to cross the street. It just hangs there, a visibly stinking, redolent horror invading everyone else's nostrils.

This is all subjective. I personally don't mind at all, but cigarette smoke irritates the hell out of me

This is why public spaces have to target a relatively high standard -- everyone is bothered by and allergic/sensitive to different things.

Wait until you realize that describes normal breath, too.

:-)

I think fast food is a sort of health crisis in America, but comparing it to things in the category of "smoking" isn't fair. It's not like food, people don't need to smoke every day to stay alive, lack of smoking isn't affecting poverty stricken communities, etc. Of course eating and smoking overlap in ways; both require the consumer to take responsibility for their health and their decisions. That's still not an apples to apples comparison, though.

Poor diet is literally killing people by the millions. Vaping has seen an acute outbreak of a problem affecting a tiny portion of people who vape which will almost certainly be traced back to a manufacturing problem.

It also disproportionately affects lower income families/individuals. Very similarly to smoking.

not to mention alcohol

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