Vaping is clearly less harmful than cigarettes, so why is it still opposed?

A 15-year smoker said that after an accidental respiratory infection led to a cold and fever, he went three days without smoking and bought a compact vaping device. It had the highest nicotine strength and an orange flavor.

At that time, after three days without smoking conventional cigarettes and with nicotine withdrawal kicking in, it felt pretty good at first. A week later, after recovering, he lit a real cigarette again, but it felt harsh and smelled terrible.

At a gathering with classmates, he took two puffs from a conventional cigarette someone offered him and could not continue smoking it.

Gradually, he no longer had phlegm in the morning, and his breathing felt smoother before bed. Generally speaking, e-cigarettes saved him.

But the social impact of e-cigarettes is mainly that they can strongly influence young people who never smoked, because the learning curve is low (and the flavors are too appealing). For long-time smokers, however, they can be a lifeline.

Many friends say e-cigarettes are just chemical additives and are not as good as natural tobacco. Fine. There is no need to explain to them the toxicity of the substances produced when natural tobacco is burned. Many people are simply anti-science.