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by jmull 35 days ago
Let's not forget: the vaping business model is to turn kids into addicts and then keep selling them the drug.

I'm not exactly going to get outraged at the NYT's rhetorical tactics against vaping.

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Do you believe the NYT's activist biases will always line up perfectly with yours?
While that might be true there is still a point to be considered regarding vaping which is that it is an order of magnitute less harmful than smoking tabacco cigarettes because nothing is burned in a vape and the "burning stuff" is what makes normal smoking so harmful. Therefore I'd argue it should definitely be available for smokers at a price tag lower than cigarettes if they can't quit smoking to reduce harm. This would massively decrease the huge costs for health care.
If I tell a lie to support a good cause and you tell a lie to support the same cause and a third and a fourth person do the same thing then, then, being so propped up by lies how can we be sure it even is a good cause worth lying for?

In this way, the harms of lying compound while the benefits do not. For this reason I believe it highly unwise to allow it to be normalized.