If you're going to claim there are definite health risks with vaping, then please point them out with evidence. So far, your contribution to this discussion is shallow at best and shows a lack of understanding of the broader picture.
Having lost family members due to tobacco smoking I'm sensible to this topic. I wish vapes would have been invented much earlier.
In my opinion, mentalities like yours are partially responsible for countless tobacco-related deaths. You push people to continue smoking or discourage those trying to quit via harm-reduction alternatives. That’s not moral righteousness—it’s ignorance with a tragic cost.
Facts:
Deaths from cigarettes in Thailand: ~70,000 per year
Deaths from vaping: 0
PM2.5 pollution is far more toxic than properly used regulated e-cigarettes.
E-cigarettes are harm-reduction tools, mainly used as a substitute for combustible tobacco. The government's opposition to vaping is largely driven by economic motives:
- Protecting tobacco farmers
- Compensating for tax losses
- Serving vested interests (tobacco and especially pharmaceutical lobbies)
Being anti-vaping is aligning yourself with big tobacco and big pharma. Whether you realize it or not, you’re serving their agenda.
And as for the usual "protect the children" argument—let’s be clear:
No child should vape or smoke. Period. That’s where enforcement should focus. But punishing adult smokers for switching to safer alternatives is absurd.
Public vaping? Treat it like smoking. Regulate it fairly, not with fear-mongering.
Regulations ? Hell yes, regulate the market and ban questionable products from shady origin with no QC. Why not even ban disposable vapes as those seems to be unnecessary and produce tons of electronic waste.
Heck, even tax it if you want if, that might save you from loosing face and not wanting to be the one who made vaping legal (even though vaping is not illegal, it's just sheningans about the devices, act of buying, importing etc...). Most vapers I guess would not mind from what I've heard.