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E-cigarettes help save lives, says Royal College of Physicians

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The key term here is 'harm minimisation'. Doctors know everyone is going to die eventually, they bury a lot of their patients one way or another, so this gives them a particular perspective. They tend to look at person who is already an addict and ask "How can I make his/her health better?" Meanwhile rates of smoking in most Western countries have declined as restrictions on use, anti-smoking campaigns and heavy taxation have had their effect. I'm personally opposed to anything that might tend to reverse this trend, so I'm definitely opposed to 'vaping' being treated as somehow different from smoking. Sorry folks, it still stinks to me, and I don't want you to do it in a restaurant, a train, a bar or an office. I think that allowing that tends to discourage people from quitting completely or, just as important, never becoming an addict in the first place.

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