Anti-smoking has gone too far: Harm reduction is better than prohibition

America’s misinformed war on vaping is helping tobacco companies, increasing crime, and hurting public health.

After decades of declining smoking rates among all ages, smoking is going up again. A combination of life in lockdown and a media inexplicably hostile to safer alternatives has been pushing Americans back to cigarettes. To save lives anti-smoking advocates need to step back and look at harm reduction instead of prohibition to…