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Banning real progress
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Begging government to ban vaping makes as much sense as begging government to ban car brakes.



No, vaping isn't *totally* safe. It's safer than smoking.

Your car having brakes won't make driving totally safe. But it's still safer than driving without brakes.



Banning, or heavily regulating, either one is going backward. Kind of like banning (or heavily regulating) suppressors.



That doesn't mean I want government to *mandate* vaping as an alternative to smoking-- it should be a personal choice. You do your life, I'll do mine.



As a tangent-- I'm always shocked at the amount of dishonesty involved in trying to fool people into joining the prohibitionists (or *any* statist cause, for that matter).



I saw a "public service" [*sic*] ad against the JUUL vapers recently, where the woman was horrified that the JUUL "contains as much nicotine as 20 cigarettes!" What is this, standard-capacity magazine hysteria aimed at a different tool?



I'm supposing you don't get all the nicotine the device contains in one inhalation. Even if you did get all the nicotine in one sitting, wouldn't it be just like chainsmoking 20 cigarettes? I've seen smokers do that (OK, I didn't count, but you know what I mean). How many cigarettes come in a pack? 20 or 25? Are you going to shove them all in your mouth at once and smoke them together? I guess you could, but I don't think there's a way to get the entire contents of nicotine from a JUUL in the amount of time it would take to smoke one cigarette-- unless you broke it open or something. But it sounds scarier to lie. Scared people are lemmings you can lead to cry for the privilege of being governed harder. So that's what prohibitionists do.


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@jacobtothe · (edited)
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When I worked at the call center from hell, many people would chain-smoke at every break to deal with the stress. I hate secondhand vape, but it's less awful than secondhand Marlboros, Camels, and whatever else they clouded every entrance by smoking. As someone with respiratory issues,  I admit I am glad they had to step slightly away from the building by legal mandate, because smokers have no courtesy as a general rule in my observation.
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@dividebyzero ·
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I guess if you don't even care about yourself enough to not smoke, then it is probably asking too much for smokers to have consideration for other people when they leave their butts everywhere and throw them out the window. I see it everyday on my way to work. It royally pisses me off every time.
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@dullhawk ·
I HATE litter. With a passion too strong to express in words. And yet I still have no desire to see government step in to "solve" it. Just hold people accountable for damaging the property of those who end up with their trash. 

In my younger, less social days, I picked up a bag or two which had been dumped by the road, went through it to find the owner's address, and returned it to their front yard. All over their front yard. I wouldn't do that anymore, but I still believe there are non-governmental ways to solve everything (*if* it has a solution).
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@jacobtothe ·
Statists: "See? That's why we need a government!

Me: "But look who votes! The same people who you say can't govern themselves get to decide who governs me?"
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