Another Move Against Vaping Hurts Smokers Trying To Kick The Habit

The New York Times reports that Governor Andrew Cuomo is signing another bill into law that seeks in order to save people from themselves, this time around according to some rather dodgy science. (Or a insufficient scientific rigor entirely.) Electronic Cigarettes and other products associated with “vaping” has decided to be, “banned from public indoor spaces in New York State.” In other words, vaping will likely be illegal in all the same places where using tobacco is.

In his statement, the governor cites long-term risks on the health of users and people around them in their rationale. While I don’t know any sane individual that thinks that vaping is much better to suit your needs than breathing clean, fresh air, these comments fly when confronted with current science. First of all, vaping is still so new that individuals have simply no idea about the long-term effects. This is only 1 of various points made by Andrew Stuttaford at National Review. He cites the final results of studies done by Britain’s Royal College of Physicians, which demonstrate that there's not yet any indications that passive contact with e-cigarette vapors pose a secondary risk to others, nor do they really identify a way that such exposure could reach measurable levels inside system. So what is Cuomo up to here? Andrew includes a theory.

It’s the “costing lives” part which is critical here. Treating vaping similar to smoking burning tobacco is not only scientifically faulty, but dangerous too. Check out many of the beginner’s info on vaping at Vapebuzz. While nobody is claiming that nicotine is good in your case (it’s actually addictive and poisonous at sufficiently high levels), the actual health culprit in cigarette smoking is perhaps all in the other vaporized toxins you’re getting through the fire. And by switching to vaping, folks are capable of avoid those toxins while hopefully kicking the habit entirely.

It’s planning to take some time for long-term studies to become completed before everyone can say anything definitive regarding the effects of vaping about the ones making use of it, to state nothing of the around them. But to date we’ve yet to view indications that second-hand contact with exhaled vapors is impacting anyone. It is, however, working to help those who need to stop smoking cigarettes.

Just speaking anecdotally, I personally know a number of those who have eliminate smoking tobacco entirely by switching to vaping and they unanimously report feeling superior correctly. New York has now joined the list of virtue signaling liberal bastions who are so eager to look as though they’re “doing something” (anything!) that they’re ready to throw science the window.

But a liberal’s first instinct is usually to regulate and tax “sin” because they define it. That’s what we’re seeing with Cuomo, who still fancies himself a presidential candidate in 2020. Just imagine he setting policy for the whole nation.