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Re:FDA to Ban Juul, Flavored E-Cigarettes If Industry Doesn'... by orangecat on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:04AM (#17969489)
The actual numbers matter. Suppose vaping is 20% as harmful as smoking, and out of every 100 children, the availability of e-cigarettes causes 5 to switch from smoking to vaping and 5 others to start vaping who wouldn't have started smoking. That would be a substantial improvement.
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Re:FDA to Ban Juul, Flavored E-Cigarettes If Industry Doesn'... by magissima on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @11:36AM (#17969822)
Those aren't actual numbers though, nor is "percentage of harmfulness" directly quantifiable.
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