Sure fine, let’s just let kids go on and contract this disease. Protecting our citizens is one of the LEGITIMATE reasons for then government to exist. [spoiler]Sorry, all out of salt.[/spoiler]

I just don’t understand vaping and smoking or any of that. You’re harming your body and more times than not you develop an addiction in the process. But heck, I haven’t done any of it so what do I know.

1- Yes there is a debate. There are zero vapers who have vaped for their entire life. There are already reports that vaping can cause more lung damage than smoking. Nicotine and tar settle at the bottom of the lungs. The alveoli in vapers are damaged throughout the entire lung, being irreparably damaged from liquid, oil, and heat. A smoker who quits can regain healthy lungs in a few years if not smoking, sometimes up to 6-7 years for heavy long time smokers. Vaping is terrible for you and the long term effects are probably going to be very similar to pneumonia, collapses lungs (lungs may not actually be collapsed physically, but the reduced capacity will have similar effects/symptoms) and who knows what else. Vaping is at least as harmful as smoking, although with different effects. That being said, yes. If people want to vape, I say let them. If society is okay with alcohol and tobacco and marijuana being legal, it’s stupid to single out vaping specifically. Tobacco helped build America as a country, has always been a huge source of money for the country as an export and a taxable commodity. Tobacco has deep roots in the identity of the United States and the money in tobacco is almost as old as the country itself. Tobacco has tons of influential people and politicians in its pocket. So I agree with the points that the vaping industry is being targeted because it was marketed as a competitor and alternative to cigarette smoking/tobacco use. My personal opinion is that I wish it were banned because when a huge thick cloud of vanilla pineapple puff floats by the disgusting smell is worse than cigarettes, thicker and more invasive than smoke, and there are times when I’ll be sitting outside and people nearby have these insane rigs and the cloud is so thick, as it blows by, I can’t even see the person sitting across the table from me. I know there are less intrusive vapes, but you know the ones I mean. They are obnoxious and disgusting.

Personally I see intentionally inhaling any burned substances as idiotic. Our lungs were designed to convert the oxygen in the air to CO2, not take in all manner of mood altering carcinogens. I mean what's the first thing your body does the first time(s) that you inhale any smoke or vape? You go through the bodies natural functions to expel the offending substances from your lungs in coughing. I mean, that SHOULD be a sign.

That’s Objectivist thinking that is a moral slippery slope that can be used to justify/rationalize anything. The issue is that we don’t know what is in any of these products and have no idea what the long term impact of their use. In short the public is being used as guinea pigs in a clinical trial of a product that it may not be possible to use in any sort of safe fashion. Alcohol and tobacco are too deeply ingrained in our culture to remove at this point, but this is something that we have ability to prevent from taking root.

ppl have already died of vaping and it's only recently become a thing. smoking takes 50-60 years to kill you

So how would you explain the 52 deaths so far?

As if inhaling water vapor (or whatever other chemicals are in that shit) is any healthier than inhaling smoke. It's not.

Why can’t consenting adults do what they want with their body this time? Why haven’t we learned our lesson from prohibition or the war on drugs? Regulation or banning doesn’t work well

It would not suprise me if it was revealed that the tobbaco lobbyists are behind it Millions have died from the effects of smoking against 52 from vaping. I don't know the details but are the deaths from regular vapers or were it DIY vapers that made mistakes?

But Trump was impeached...surely this can be blamed on vaping.