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kortillayesterday at 5:30 PM1 replyview on HN

That’s still getting a handle on it. Vaping is not good but it’s significantly better than the tar that comes from burning cigarettes


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dangusyesterday at 8:33 PM

In the context of the alternative which was “nobody really smokes or vapes” it’s not really a good outcome.

Sure, smoking rates cratered. It was great. But now vaping rates have gone up and it just didn’t have to happen that way at all.

Go back a few years and less people vaped with similarly low smoking rates. Vaping didn’t replace smoking, its net new usage.

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