![Vaping Panic Ignores How E-Cigarettes Save Lives]()
October 04, 2019
H.L. Mencken defined Puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." The rub against vaping, and other smokeless tobacco products, is that people enjoy it. (Steven Greenhut, Reason)
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![Vape Bans & Lung Disease: Picking Through the Feds' Framing]()
October 03, 2019
"And whatever the FDA does from here, combustible cigarettes will be left unscathed and widely accessible. Almost half a million Americans die from smoking-related causes each year, and more than half a million have been diagnosed with lung cancer at some point in their lives. And vapers are implicitly being encouraged to return to smoking." (Michael McGrady)
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![The FDA Plans to Ban Flavored E-Cigarettes Based on a Nonexistent 'Epidemic']()
October 03, 2019
The main justification for state and federal bans on flavored e-cigarettes is the "epidemic" of underage vaping, which former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb worried might result in "a whole generation of young people becoming addicted to nicotine." (Jacob Sullum article in Reason.)
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