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In reply to the discussion: Is vaping itself harmful? [View all]Mariana
(14,857 posts)is that for many people, the smoking bans were never about the dangers of secondhand smoke. That's what we were told for years and years. Secondhand smoke is dangerous to bystanders, and that's why smoking in all kinds of places must be prohibited. Turns out that all along, it was never about that. Now, smokers and former smokers have a device they can enjoy using, one that doesn't emit any smoke at all, and therefore can't cause any secondhand smoke. And what happens? The focus shifts. We now have a bunch of people squawking about the dangers of nicotine. There are a few people (one right in this thread) who lie outright saying these devices emit smoke, trying to stick to the old story. However, most have shifted completely away from the actual reason we have the smoking bans to something entirely different.