These Are The BEST And WORST Cities To Vape In

by Steve Birr

We now know what American cities are most and least hospitable to vaping.

Vaping involves using an e-cigarette device to heat liquid nicotine, which produces a vapor the user inhales. Evidence suggests vaping is 95 percent safer than traditional cigarettes, because the majority of cancer causing chemicals are inhaled through smoke.

Many health experts argue promoting vaping over traditional tobacco aids the public health, while harsh regulations make smokers less likely to use the device to quit. Nevertheless, states took steps on election night to impose new sales taxes on vaping; some activists claiming e-cigarettes are extending the “tobacco epidemic.”

To better understand the shifting landscape governing e-cigarettes, researchers from the free market think tank R Street Institute created Vapescore.org, an interactive database ranking 52 U.S. cities on their friendliness to vaping.

“Our first Vapescore analysis reveals a rapidly developing policy area rife with misinformation and heavily motivated by a political desire to replace declining cigarette revenues,” researchers Cameron Smith and Dan Semelsberger wrote in the report. “Rather than arbitrarily and unscientifically drawing the conclusion that cigarettes and vapor products are equivalent, public officials should consider policies treat vapor products proportionally to their health impacts.”

Supporters of high taxes on e-cigarettes are fearful vaping is re-normalizing smoking as socially acceptable, and will eventually lead to higher smoking rates among America’s youth. Evidence that e-cigarette use is turning another generation of children into cigarette smokers is thin. The United Kingdom actually promotes the sale of e-cigarettes as a health conscious alternative to smoking.

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