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[fujiyama]

211. I am fine with the FDA regulating these

especially to ensure quality manufacturing and safety. I also do not want these targeted toward minors...and fewer advertisements is almost always a good thing.

However, some studies are showing they have about a tenth of the toxins as regular cigarettes at least when it comes to second hand smoke. If someone next to me at a bar is "vaping", I am not bothered (unless the odor is particularly strong). From an overall public health perspective, it makes no sense to simply lump these together with regular cigarettes (as some misguided legislators have done around the country). It's not clear whether these are actually helping people quit, but it's still a better alternative to smoking.

Granted that also means these would compete with all the different big-pharma "remedies" to quit smoking and politicians are less likely to feel ashamed taking big pharma's money over big tobacco (though the former is far more ruthless, unscrupulous, and nasty in its corporate practices than big tobacco could ever hope to be). Big pharma is also a lot more influential.