Vaping: Positive or Negative?

Do you think vaping is better than cigarettes? There have been many different opinions on vaping vs. smoking. Vaping is such a new thing, and there is not enough research to see if vaping is really better than smoking cigarettes. Do you consider vaping smoking? It is essentially water vapor. But I believe that vaping with nicotine can be harmful for the lungs. I guess we have to wait and see if vaping has any negative effects on the body. 

Today the New York City Council approved an ordinance that prohibits the use of e-cigarettes in all the places where smoking is prohibited, which is pretty much everywhere except private residences and some outdoor locations (not parks, though!). The ban takes effect in four months, although business owners will have another six months to post “No Vaping” signs.

Why did the city council decide to treat vaping like smoking? Not because e-cigarettes, which contain no tobacco and produce no smoke, pose a hazard to bystanders, which is the usual excuse for smoking bans, but because they look too much like regular cigarettes. 

Similarly, Councilman James Gennaro, the ban’s main sponsor, worries that e-cigarettes’ superficial resemblance to the tobacco-burning variety will confuse children, undermining decades of education aimed at convincing the nation’s youth that smoking is dangerous and totally uncool. While these explanations are utterly implausible, they do reflect the true, subrational motivation of e-cigarette prohibitionists: They are appalled by this product because the battery-powered devices remind them of the real thing, triggering all the emotions of disgust, contempt, and self-righteousness they associate with smoking.

Yet it is this very same resemblance that makes e-cigarettes such a promising harm-reduction tool, one that mimics smoking while delivering nicotine to the lungs without the myriad toxins and carcinogens generated by tobacco combustion. Hence anyone concerned about the health effects of smoking should welcome this product. But for control freaks like Quinn and Gennaro, the cigarette form has become such a powerful symbol of evil that they have lost sight of the health-based rationale for their opposition to smoking, the upshot being that they support a policy that’s apt to result in more tobacco-related disease and death, the opposite of their ostensible goal.

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