Ashtray Blog: An Electronic Cigarette Blog
Making Choices for Smokers
A Dangerous Threat to Liberty
The anti-electronic cigarette campaign seems to assume that smokers are children, and that decisions must be made for them.
Smokers, the assumption seems to be, are not capable of making their own decisions.
Which leaves public health campaigners, who have already helped ban snus, the safest form of chewing tobacco and a habit which removes at least 90% of the risk of smoking, in Europe, to make the choice for them.
The only justification that we can see for the smoking ban is that it protects the health of non-smokers. It should not be about making choices for smokers about what they do with their health. The same justification does not apply to electronic cigarettes.
Electronic cigarettes are a viable and almost certainly healthier alternative to smoking.
Smokers are able to read the available research – product tests and tests on mice suggest that the e-cigarette is safe to use, but long term tests on actual smokers are still ongoing – and make their own judgement.
To remove the right to judge and choose for oneself because some patraning pharmacy-sponsored public health campaigner has a chip on her shoulder about nicotine is a dangerous infringement on our public liberties.
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