People who want to ban e-cigs are the useful idiots of Big Tobacco

[Ms. Toad]

217. It is well documented that nicotine is harmful.

So the fact that no one has yet died from the specific mechanism used to deliver a toxin is a bit of a red herring.

I am all in favor of using e-cigs as a way to stop smoking. But glamorizing vaping will create new addictions to a toxic substance in the same way that the glamorization created earlier generations of people addicted to nicotine.

Although many small manufacturers (those ground up folks) may not be glamorizing it, or trying to create new generations addicted to nicotine, the same people who created prior generations of people addicted to smoking are now in the game (two that I know of so far) - and they are- using the same tactics they used with smoking. And while people trying to quit smoking may want to distance themselves from the tobacco companies, the non-smokers who are starting vaping don't have that addicted/hate relationship and are the ones most likely to be influenced by the glamorization of vaping. That is what the concern is about - they know from vast experience that if they can create an addiction in a teen, they most likely have a customer for life.

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/03/284006424/e-cigarette-critics-worry-new-ads-will-make-vaping-cool-for-kids
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/tobacco_unfiltered/post/2013_10_02_ecigarettes