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CMV: You can't ban vaping without banning cigarettes too.

Vaping is new (\~10 years old) and when using the legally acquired (lab made) liquid/cartridges, has proven to have some health effects, but fairly limited.  Understandably, the research can only be as old as the tech, but I feel \~10 years is a decent amount of time to determine health affects.  Most of the news headlines of late have been of people dying/getting sick from vaping cartridges that people either:

A.) Made at home in their kitchen using substitute ingredients.

B.) Bought from their dealer (THC cartridges) where their dealer made them at home using substitute ingredients.

C.) Bought from knockoff websites where the cartridges were made in China using substitute ingredients.

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Cigarettes on the other hand have a proven track record of cancer, heart disease, and sickness.  I don't understand the huge outcry to ban vaping, when cigarettes are clearly worse.  I hear all the time "yea but we know what cigarettes are going to do, we don't know what vaping will do."  Seriously?  That is the lamest argument I've ever heard.  That's the same thing as saying "yea we know Product A ***will*** kill 100,000 people this year, but WE KNOW THAT.  Product B ***might*** kill a small unknown number of people, but it can!" How is that a valid argument?!  It reminds me of the Joker in The Dark Knight Rises... " *You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go "according to plan." Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all "part of the plan". But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds."*

There's \~10 years of research that shows limited health effects, and vaping has proven to help people kick cigarettes, which is clearly the more detrimental of the two.  The only reason people are out to ban vaping at this point is because of these clickbait headlines that don't fully explain that most of the cartridges people are getting sick from are either HOME MADE or KNOCKOFF.

If you're going to ban vaping, how would cigarettes not be a part of the same ban?

The reason vaping and cigarettes don't get lumped together is that everyone knows selling cigarettes will never be banned.  So why attack vaping?  Because children are buying the pods?  Attack the convenience store owners then, and inept parenting skills.  But banning vaping is not the answer.  Vaping has helped tens of thousands of cigarette smokers move away from cigarettes, while still allowing them to indulge in a habit that they might enjoy.

Aside from that, I have a rather libertarian political view.  Personally, I think all drugs and prostitution should be legalized/regulated/taxed.  I don't think the government should tell anyone what they can and cannot put in their bodies.  Make the companies put warning labels on things, sure I support that.  Educate people on PROVEN health effects from LAB MADE products, sure I support that.  But the government shouldn't be able to tell anyone what they can and can't put in their body.  Cigarettes and vaping are included in that.
gpt
You shouldn’t look for logic when it comes to banning stuff.

Bottom line... they **can** ban vaping without banning cigarettes. End of discussion. 

Is it hypocritical? Absolutely! Does it make sense to ban something that is inherently more dangerous? Yeah! 

Your point is?

Your view should be something along the lines of “If you ban vaping, you should ban cigarettes as well.”

But saying the government can’t when they absolutely can really doesn’t leave any room for discussion, because they can.