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Vaping is an effective tool, but it definitely ruins more people's lives (those who went from nothing to vaping) instead of helping them (people who went from cigarettes to vaping).

We could use even stricter rules (such as making vapes prescription products) to tilt it even more towards the "quitting" market.

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I wonder if people are actually having their lives "ruined" by vaping. Maybe. What would be worse is if vaping wasn't available and they went from nothing to cigarettes. I guess you'd say those lives would be "devastated", or something?

> What would be worse is if vaping wasn't available and they went from nothing to cigarettes

Good thing we don't have to worry about it because it's a situation we have data on. You've created a hypothetical that is incorrect. Before vaping cigarette use from people who had never smoked before had plummeted to almost nothing. Meanwhile, 1 in 4 kids from 6-12 grade vapes.

This is still preferable to a situation where 1 in 10 smokes, since tobacco smoke contains various ”boosters” intended to increase the effects of nicotine, including addiction.

Vaping does not generate dangerous particles in the form of second hand smoke — on the contrary, second hand tobacco smoke is around 95% as dangerous as smoking yourself.

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