Between Congress's recent decision to raise the age to buy vaping products to 21, states imposing high taxes on e-cigarettes, and the Trump administration's decision, announced Thursday, to go through with a partial ban of flavored vaping products, America's war on vaping is in full swing. But when you consider the positive approach taken in the United Kingdom, the foolishness of this new conflict is laid bare.
The entire recent moral panic over vaping is baseless to begin with. Isolated instances of deaths from vaping-related lung illnesses have been used to paint a false picture that legal vaping products are dangerous. In fact, those reported deaths almost all involved the use of black-market products.
Vaping is much healthier than smoking traditional cigarettes. E-cigarettes do contain nicotine, but nicotine was never really the problem with traditional cigarettes in the first place — it's essentially similar to caffeine. Rather, the enormous public health problem posed by cigarettes is due to the cancer-causing chemicals they contain, such as tar, for example. Vaping products do not contain similar chemicals, making them much, much less likely to cause cancer.
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