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How is nicotine legal?
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Same way alcohol is legal I imagine, we've been doing it for enough time that it has become culture, and it's not like THAT many people die of it anyway.
Luckily smoking (hopefully including e-smokes) appears to still be declining.
They'll never ban nicotine. Have you ever dealt with an ex-smoker? Very aggro. You'd have riots of very angry people if we banned nicotine immediately.
I could see vapes going to way of cigarettes and being educated out of society but it's going to take a generation. A lifetime of being told "smoking is bad" killed smoking but vapes popped up that solved a hundred problems with smoking immediately (no arsenic, no cancer, no tar, etc) so I think they'll have to brainstorm on how they can convince a big chunk of people why nicotine is bad.
I've quit vaping a few times but came to a horrifying conclusion: Why? It's not like it improves my life massively. Not like smoking where you regain your sense of taste, smell and improve your health. You've simply removed the ability to have morning head rushes. That's it.
I beleive they will, here in australia the gov has been slowly but surely driving up taxes on cigarettes until the point where its such an expensive habit that people wont get hooked in the first place because why spend all that money on durries when you could spend it on some much more enjoyable and affordable instead - before you get to the addiction stage.
This is along with changing laws to deincentivise smokers, such as plain packaging laws to remove advertising appeal, banning indoor smoking and smoking within x-meters of a building doorway, etc.
And now vapes are the new thing the tobacco industry is pushing they have outright banned nicotine vapes and cartridges importing and buying.
If they create a generation that never starts smoking then will anyone resist banning it by the time the last smokers die out?