• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Vaping is actually very helpful and it’s probably helped a lot of people stop smoking.

    Being marginally less unhelpful than some other very unhelpful thing is still objectively unhelpful.

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      1 year ago

      Marginally is a massive understatement. Maybe in 50 years we’re going to discover that it causes some crazy side effects, but in comparison to smoking it’s like having a hamburger once a week compared to three a day.

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        1 year ago

        The point is, its amount of helpfulness is still negative, not positive.

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          1 year ago

          For someone who is a smoker and otherwise would not be able to quit its helpfulness as immensely positive.

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            1 year ago

            For every smoker vaping helps, it also tempts probably at least one person to start using who didn’t before. Therefore, it is 1000% indisputably negative and everybody trying to make excuses for it is a goddamn enabler.