San Fran Should Admit it Was Wrong About Vaping

San Fran Should Admit it Was Wrong About Vaping
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San Francisco cares about your health — so much so that they outright banned the sale of e-cigarettes in 2020. As usual for SF, the ultra-progressive city sought to be a leader in the fight against electronic cigarettes, issuing one of the most stringent measures taken in the U.S. However, a recent study shows that the measure was probably a costly mistake. After all, the very bans enforced by the city may well have ended up doing more harm than good. 

There’s no reason to argue that smoking is a good thing, whether e-cigarettes or regular. The science is fairly clear on what happens when people smoke, it can be extraordinarily harmful to their bodies. Smoking cigarettes after all, is the leading preventable cause of death in the US, killing just under half a million a year. San Francisco passed the measure as a precautionary principle, saying "This is a decisive step to help prevent another generation of San Francisco children from becoming addicted to nicotine." But they’re relying on bad science as a basis for their decisions. 

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