In 1952, claims that smoking causes cancer caused Kent cigarettes' to come out with an asbestos filter to protect its smokers.
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55003641
Vapes genuinely would be a huge amount safer than tobacco if people were using the kind of vapes that the comparative studies were done with. However, in real life, people buy the cheap ones and/or the dodgy imported-despite-not-meeting-local-regulation ones, where it's just not viable to do things like avoid contaminating them with heavy metals like Cadmium. Cheap smuggled cigarettes aren't that much worse than regular cigarettes. Cheap smuggled disposable vapes are much worse than top-end reusable vapes.