For people who were already smoking then vaping is a useful harm reduction tool. For people who don't smoke (especially children) it's a health concern - albeit a potentially smaller one than smoking one.
For people who were already smoking then vaping is a useful harm reduction tool. For people who don't smoke (especially children) it's a health concern - albeit a potentially smaller one than smoking one.
And, of course, there's nuance to that question. It's not like our only options are to keep the status quo or ban vapes entirely. One of the ideas presented in the article is to ban flavored vapes, since that's one of the main points of attraction to non-smokers (especially children), and non-flavored (or tobacco-flavored) vapes will still be viable alternative to smokers.
I know a smoker who ended up increasing his own addiction because of that and went back to cigarettes, smoking more than he used to.
That this is not yet banned or supertaxed by specialized law shows the slowness of our regulatory bodies - as designed and good for the bad stuff.
It's a shame, but small tip of the iceberg!
There are a lot of decisions to make when buying a refillable vape. There are various models, they have compatible, disposable pods (the vape juice receptacle) with coils of various ohms resistance, and then juices which are either salt nic or free base with a range of nicotine concentrations.
One could go to a vape shop and have the clerk explain all of this, or spend a bit of time researching online. It's not especially hard, but it _is_ harder than just strolling to any corner store or gas station and asking for a disposable vape.
The e-waste of disposables is hard to stomach, especially some of the newer disposables that even have LCDs and buttons for playing little games on the vape.