This reminds me of the "It looks just as stupid when you do it" anti-smoking poster[0], which was meant to dissuade smoking, but actually goes kind of hard.
I'd like to imagine that the creator heard the 'Einstein zebra puzzle' (the puzzle about different nationalities having different pets and smoking different brands of cigarettes) and just made the pets have different nationalities and smoking the cigarettes directly.
Australian anti smoking ads were a lot more effective. Showing graphic images and video of diseased foot or someone struggling to talk, coughing up blood.
Was working incredibly well up until vapes came along and every school kid had one.
I mean it's hard to know the exact split, but obviously the combination of the negative advertising and price hikes killed smoking. It went from something that everyone did to only something addicts and homeless people do. Even with black market cigarettes now, kids still haven't taken up smoking.
While vaping has exploded, and while it isn't harmless, it's clearly safer than smoking so the current situation is still better.
There's a lot of anti-vaping FUD in the Oz media right now. Anecdotally a lot of people I speak with view it as more harmful than smoking. And legislation has made it extremely unpleasant and inconvenient to obtain low-nic vapes that don't taste like ass.
Fortunately every second convenience store sells high-nic illegal vapes under the counter, with $deity knows what chemicals inside. Yay?
Have you actually seen reputable evidence of this? Because I went looking for it at one point and as far as I can tell there isn't any. Just a bunch of entirely baseless FUD that I'm not entirely clear who is driving.
I did come across a few papers purporting to show toxic chemicals but when digging in they had exceptionally poor methodology regarding temperature and time. Like yeah if you get a custom vape and crank the temperature up until it's belching black smoke that's going to be bad for your health but that's neither here nor there.