Measures to stop children from vaping could be included in forthcoming tobacco and vapes bill
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241005081705/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/04/vaping-to-be-banned-outside-schools-and-hospitals
I smoked 3 packs a day for 25 years, then I vaped for 11, then I quit vaping 3 years ago.
Is vaping good? Of course not. Putting nothing other than air in your lungs is the best course of action. But it’s 10 times better than smoking, and it really does help you get off the stinkies once and for all.
I would not have been able to quit smoking without vaping. I’m totally convinced vaping saved my life.
This proven, effective smoking cessation method is more and more denied to smokers who, like me, needed the help badly. Vaping was a real step forward in the fight against tobacco, and now we’re right back to where we started. Clearly nobody cares about helping those who are addicted to tobacco.
And I guess we have the pharma industry and the tobacco industry to thank for that: vaping cut into their bottom lines badly and they finally managed to kill it off for good so they could keep selling cigarettes (or tobacco-industry-made vapes) and crappy ineffective nicotine patches forever, as all vapers accurately predicted would happen years ago.
Shame on our corrupt powers that be.
Yup, all to the cheer of ignorant masses who either falsely claim vaping is more or equally harmful to smoking, fearmonger with their “think of the children” shit about unproven negative effects despite none being found still, or simply want to ban everything they don’t like - which is a sentiment especially common I’m Britain.