Swap To Stop

[Toby iVapour]

On a mild tangent - I like Grimm Green, but his political position as a libertarian (e.g. minimal government) is completely at odds with his advocacy for vaping. The lesson from the States is that we actually need government protection / regulation from the monopolistic tendencies of big tobacco / pharma, because their number one motive is profit and they will sweep all competition out of their way.

Surely the argument he's making is that if it wasn't for over-regulation by the US government, the monopolistic tendencies of big tobacco / pharma wouldn't happen...

The US Government is enabling it to happen.

 

[Toby iVapour]

Some interesting stuff about it from Christopher Snowdon -
E-cigarettes on the NHS
https://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2023/04/e-cigarettes-on-nhs.html

Four out of ten smokers in England wrongly believe that nicotine causes cancer and the proportion of smokers who wrongly believe that vaping is as dangerous or more dangerous than smoking rose from 36 per cent in 2014 to 53 per cent in 2020.

I'm starting to come round to the idea that maybe it is not so bad to spend taxpayers money on vaping advocacy & freebies -

The cost of the free vape scheme is not enormous (£45 million). In any case, smokers massively subsidise nonsmokers through tobacco duty so why shouldn't they get a bit back? On balance, it is a good policy.

He has a funny turn of phrase, and holds no punches -

This was all announced yesterday by the public health minister Neil O'Brien at Policy Exchange (where he used to be the director). ---
The subsequent Q & A is worth watching if you want a reminder of how many parasites are involved in tobacco control. ---
A woman called Penny Steed who works at Whittington NHS Trust and runs Smoke-Free City & Hackney gave a quote for the ages when she told O'Brien:
"We're a great service. We help a lot of people. We really do help them. They tend to go back to smoking and we help them again."
Said without a hint of irony, this was a showstopper.

 

[vapervince]

There will be hundreds if not thousands of people in jobs they dont deserve worrying about getting their funding withdrawn as the truth about vaping slowly emerges, amen.