2019: An outbreak of EVALI (E-cigarette, or Vaping Product, Use Associated Lung Injury), a severe and potentially lethal lung disease, led to 2,807 hospitalizations and 68 deaths
Nowadays, smoking in general is pretty frowned upon, there aren't any more "smoking sections" at restaurants, and people are more aware of how dangerous it is to smoke while there are kids in the car
This regulatory caution reflects public-health advocates' concerns that harm-reduction claims, even when scientifically accurate, may renormalize nicotine use and undermine decades of denormalization efforts
Secondhand smoke is the smoke that the other people in the presence of a smoker breathe, the smoke that my father expelled from his lungs after every drag from his cigarettes or puff from his pipe as well as the smoke that rises from these tobacco products as they burn