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by ModernMech 2464 days ago
Okay, let's say we accept this. We have plenty of science and evidence to say that smoking cigarettes directly leads to cancer, yet we are fine with cigarettes being legal. Why are we ready to ban vaping because of what we don't know, but we're fine keeping cigarettes despite what we do know?
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Cigarettes are heavily regulated, rarely allowed in public places any longer, banned for sale to minors, taxed, and societally increasingly unacceptable.

We’re not making them illegal, but we’re making them as undesirable as we can.

No, I'm not fine with keeping cigarettes. They are so dangerous that they kill even non-smokers who are nearby.

Pretty please, can we make them illegal?