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Smoking Is a Dying Habit. Not in Germany. (www.wsj.com)
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Health experts think low tobacco prices, a general tolerance of smoking and changes brought by the pandemic may explain the uptick in cigarette use.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The judgement on vaping is still out.

Not really. It's not 100% yes, but it's a pretty safe bet that it's less harmful (as in: still bad bad but less). The reason that health advisory boards are hesitant to say that too loud it's by no means clear that the increase of vaping is going to help society as a whole. Because vaping is unhealthy in its own but also because the addiction to nicotine that comes with it may end up turning people into smokers.

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Are e-cigarettes less harmful than regular cigarettes? Yes—but that doesn’t mean e-cigarettes are safe. E-cigarette aerosol generally contains fewer toxic chemicals than the deadly mix of 7,000 chemicals in smoke from regular cigarettes.3

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/about-e-cigarettes.html