More and more smokers are switching from tobacco cigarettes to e-cigarettes. Instead of smoke from burning tobacco and paper, E-cigs provide water vapor infused with a bit of nicotine and flavoring, (Using an e-cig is referred to as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vaping\u00e2\u20ac\u009d instead of smoking, and users are referred to as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153vapers.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d) There is no tar, carbon monoxide, or any of the other chemicals common to cigarettes. The vapor evaporates in seconds, leaving no odor or second hand smoke. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re available in a variety of strengths, allowing a vaper to control how much nicotine they get (and ratchet it down, over time, if they want to). They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re available in a variety of flavors. The rechargeable versions are much less expensive than cigarettes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c vapers can vape for under a buck a day, as opposed to ten bucks a day for most smokers.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
E-cig manufactures carefully avoid making any health clams, including claims about using them to quit tobacco. Most vapers, though, will tell you they quit cigarettes quickly and easily by switching to e-cigs. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll tell you they feel much better than they did when smoking cigarettes. Some vapers keep using e-cigs, others use them as a quitting tool. There aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t many studies on the subject, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s little doubt that water vapor with some nicotine in it is far less harmful than tobacco smoke.<\/p>\n
Nicotine nannies should be delighted about such an easy, practical way to reduce the harm to smokers. But they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not. In fact, they are incensed by e-cigs very existence. E-Cigs are being restricted, regulated and outright outlawed. NYC and LA, who have long been in competition to see who could be the biggest nanny city, are treating them like regular cigarettes, banning them from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153public\u00e2\u20ac\u009d places, including outdoors. The European Union is working on severe restrictions that are designed to be impossible to meet \u00e2\u20ac\u201c in other words, banning them. Why? If the nicotine nannies were really interested in public health, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d be celebrating e-cigs instead of vilifying them. Their reaction to them makes no sense, unless you add in one other factor.<\/p>\n
Hatred. NNs hate smoking, and more importantly, smokers<\/em>, with a blind seething vehemence that makes Klansmen say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whoa, might want to dial that back a bit, buddy.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d They view smokers as abnormal sub-humans with no self-control or concern for others. They want smoker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s choices to be limited to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153quit or die.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Preferably die.<\/p>\n Stanton Glanz is one of the primary leaders of the current anti-smoker movement. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spent the last three decades promoting the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153denormalization\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of smoking and smokers. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s right, he and his minions want smokers to be seen as abnormal.<\/p>\n
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