I feel like this is them banning an outdated and (for them) culturally irrelevant drug delivery method that drives significant health risks - inhaling combusted plant matter.
Nicotine is the active ingredient and doesn’t cause most of the issues associated with smoking, and can have a lot of benefits as a stimulant. To my knowledge vapes still have issues with lung damage, but gum and patches are alternatives too.
Nicotine on its own can still cause cardiovascular problems long term I think, but the harm is relatively small and literally every drug, whether used for pleasure or medicine, is associated with something bad, and it’s about level of risk vs benefit. My Prilosec can kidney damage long term but it’ll stop me from getting esophageal cancer and also let’s me not be uncomfortable 24/7.
I feel like this is them banning an outdated and (for them) culturally irrelevant drug delivery method that drives significant health risks - inhaling combusted plant matter.
Nicotine is the active ingredient and doesn’t cause most of the issues associated with smoking, and can have a lot of benefits as a stimulant. To my knowledge vapes still have issues with lung damage, but gum and patches are alternatives too.
Nicotine on its own can still cause cardiovascular problems long term I think, but the harm is relatively small and literally every drug, whether used for pleasure or medicine, is associated with something bad, and it’s about level of risk vs benefit. My Prilosec can kidney damage long term but it’ll stop me from getting esophageal cancer and also let’s me not be uncomfortable 24/7.