After following the whole issue closely for over 10 years, I am more of the opinion that it is a coordinated effort to sideline nicotine vaping with multiple interests having the same goal.
Before Juul came to the scene, and became the main disruptor in a 500 year old enjoyment of substance that whole governments and societies were deeply involved. Nicotine vaping was a side kick of a particular subculture.
Not a threat to the established structure of industry, tax, healthcare, government s etc.
It is too early to try to see how history is going judge this whole thing.
There is a need for a full and deep history of nicotine vaping to be written.
What is constantly overlooked is the role and involvement of the vaping industry in this whole mess. The evolution of vaping to this day.
I have lots of questions, but can not find many answers.
The unanswered questions you raise are real. But the absence of a perfect history does not excuse the refusal to engage with the evidence we already have. At some point, insisting on “more study” becomes indistinguishable from choosing inaction or worse, choosing policies that preserve smoking.
This isn’t about defending an industry or glorifying nicotine. It’s about recognising that what is happening now is not evidence-led caution, but an aggressive narrowing of acceptable outcomes. And history, whenever it is written, will have to reckon with that choice.
History will look back at the huge cost in lives, and the continued sale of deadly cigarettes. It may be used as an example of how moral crusade and prohibitionist thinking killed millions of people. 8 million a year, if that was a flood or storm, the world would be alive trying to help. Because it happens every year, year on year, it is ignored as normal. Many of those lives can be saved by harm reduction and offering safer alternatives.
I would not called it a panic.
After following the whole issue closely for over 10 years, I am more of the opinion that it is a coordinated effort to sideline nicotine vaping with multiple interests having the same goal.
Before Juul came to the scene, and became the main disruptor in a 500 year old enjoyment of substance that whole governments and societies were deeply involved. Nicotine vaping was a side kick of a particular subculture.
Not a threat to the established structure of industry, tax, healthcare, government s etc.
It is too early to try to see how history is going judge this whole thing.
There is a need for a full and deep history of nicotine vaping to be written.
What is constantly overlooked is the role and involvement of the vaping industry in this whole mess. The evolution of vaping to this day.
I have lots of questions, but can not find many answers.
The unanswered questions you raise are real. But the absence of a perfect history does not excuse the refusal to engage with the evidence we already have. At some point, insisting on “more study” becomes indistinguishable from choosing inaction or worse, choosing policies that preserve smoking.
This isn’t about defending an industry or glorifying nicotine. It’s about recognising that what is happening now is not evidence-led caution, but an aggressive narrowing of acceptable outcomes. And history, whenever it is written, will have to reckon with that choice.
Awesome stack sir. Nail, head, right on!
Keep it coming my friend 🧡
Unfortunately, I suspect that those responsible for this moral panic, will be long gone before people realize the harm this will have caused.
History will look back at the huge cost in lives, and the continued sale of deadly cigarettes. It may be used as an example of how moral crusade and prohibitionist thinking killed millions of people. 8 million a year, if that was a flood or storm, the world would be alive trying to help. Because it happens every year, year on year, it is ignored as normal. Many of those lives can be saved by harm reduction and offering safer alternatives.