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.
9 min readFeb 2, 2021
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…