E-Cigarettes bite the dust in another country

Electronic Cigarettes have now been banned in Hong Kong, the latest place to deny nicotine addicts the right to the choice of a safer cigarette.

We were alerted to the news report by Paul Bergen, who said, “Check out the lab analysis discovery.”

It seemed that the lab analysis was successful in discovering nicotine in the e-cigarettes.

In fairness, in one cigarette a rather high level of nicotine was found.

Since then, several people have been arrested for selling the product.

Why?

All research so far seems to provide solid evidence that e-cigarettes are safer than cigarettes.

Most of the damage from cigarettes comes from the smoke and from the carcinogens that are contained in the tobacco.

Some complain that e-cigarettes could persuade non-smokers to take up smoking – but clearly almost all marketing is targetted at smokers.

I wonder if the campaign against e-cigarettes is not some kind of crazed puratannical thinking by public health campaigners.

These people seem to think it is not good enough to switch to a healthier form of nicotine intake – we have to give it up altogether.

As with smokeless tobacco, this could eventually mean removing another choice from those people who can’t or won’t smoke tobacco.

And with half of all smokers eventually dying because of their habit, that’s serious.

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