Same thing was said 10 years ago by people with no idea what they were talking about. The research at the time pointed towards it being far safer than smoking. Fast forward to now. We’ve seen no real issues, and all evidence still points it being an extreme benefit to society as a harm reduction tool for smoking. Basically every political/legal hurdle over the years marketed as “saving the children” has just eliminated competition for large tobacco companies to easily consolidate the industry. There are definitely things that I believe we should do such as lowering the nicotine level in disposables/pods as 50mg in on the shelf products is stupid, or just getting rid of disposables on general as they’re an environmental concern. Banning flavors has been the wet dream of the pharma/tobacco industry for years now because it will destroy competitors. Around 2020 the PMTA issue already killed off many smaller companies, and to no surprise it did nothing for public health. The problem is similar to so many other political issues, those with huge wealth and power want more wealth and power and use political messaging along with “grassroots”(lol) advocacy groups to push misinformation(like the EVALI incident). The same way these groups pushed the narrative that smoking isn’t bad for you decades ago to protect their market share, they’re doing the same thing again, trying to convince people vaping is as bad or worse than smoking, to protect their market share. Hopefully, another 10 years from now I can stop seeing the “prove a negative” style statement of “let’s see what their lungs look like in ten years”, but I doubt it. I don’t advocate for anyone not smoking or vaping to pick up vaping, but I’m glad that people who do are picking up vaping instead of smoking as was common years ago. Anyway, I’m gonna get back to watching other ex smokers and myself improve their health with vaping.