Western politicians have got a hell of a lot to answer for promoting this garbage! Smoking conventional cigarettes among the young was going down and down in recent years anyway. Smoking was losing its appeal. So, politicians should have left things alone. They should have just kept on informing people through infomercials of the dangers attached to smoking. But instead of that, they promoted these dangerous alternatives to cigarette smoking: all forms of e-cigarettes and vapes.
I have never tried vaping, and nor do I have any intention of ever doing so. But I have heard it said, and I have read, that vaping is more addictive than smoking conventional cigarettes.
In my opinion, for what it is worth, because vapers usually keep their e-cigarettes constantly in their hands and keep on puffing on them incessantly—something one never does with conventional cigarettes—they are bound to be far more addictive and injurious to health in the long-run that real cigarettes could ever be. A person who smokes real cigarettes, unless he/she is a chain-smoker, will take a break from smoking after stubbing out the cigarette he/she has just smoked. Not so, it seems, with e-cigarettes.
In years to come, doctors will be discovering all manner of illnesses caused by these devices. I feel sure of that. Possibly discovering diseases and illnesses which until now have not even been thought of.
It’s such a shame that politicians cannot stop themselves from meddling in people’s lives. It is such a pity that they feel compelled to try and improve the situation. Why? Because they usually end up making things worse. In German, there is a perfect word to describe this phenomenon. It is this: verschlimmbessern. There is no English equivalent; one can only describe its meaning. And it is this: doing something in the hope of improving things but you end up making things worse. This German word perfectly describes the actions of our stupid, ill-informed politicians. My message to them is this: Keep your noses out of people’s private lives and just leave things alone, leave people sort out their own problems. Good parents know how to deal with these things. They don’t need politicians to keep on passing new, ineffective laws to try and help them. — © Mark Alexander
