I don't get why getting the patch and vaping should be seen as a simple neutral choice of delivery method when the delivery method is the very thing being debated?

Nobody here is against the patch to get off smoking. The article is about starting the habit. And studies about vaping is literally about the delivery method.

People who start vaping are more likely to start smoking. Before vapes, they may have gone straight to smoking? Or not done it at all? But to focus on the getting off, when there are people getting on and then going further should be seen as diversion from the topic at hand.

Yes. There is no flaw in reasoning - if you had read any of the fraudulent studies that the WHO policies back then were based on you would understand. But you know nothing about this topic do you?

You people don't seem to be able to wrap your heads around that bad shit is happening because the media doesn't tell you about it. They love the headline about danger this and that. But still people like you think they can just parrot the headlines and mainstream media and are automatically right and can insult and shit on anyone who says differently. It's very arrogant.

Vaping is very safe. Vaping can be very effective and getting people off smoking. And there are powerful interests arrayed against them for various reasons.

Take the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement. Ever since then Big Tobacco pays off states. The more cigarettes they sell, the more the state profits. And then they leveraged or borrowed money against those future profits. Then vaping comes along and threatens that. What do you think their motivation is? A moral one? Or are they going to do what is best for themselves?

I don't know exactly what the dysfunction at the WHO is but it's probably related to nicotine replacement therapies which make pharma good money. Or it's related to anti-smoking zealotry, a kind of fanaticism. But their recommendations have led to a lot of countries banning vaping outright while cigarette smoking and deaths continues. You might disagree with calling this murder. I have no such qualms.