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Tobacco is a known, well-quantified sink of QALYs on a massive scale. Anti-tobacco efforts have their own cost.
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Vaping is a solution with essentially no enforcement costs and zero QALY impact.
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Cracking down on vaping is self-mutilation of the body politic on a catastrophic scale.
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By comparison, carbon taxes are probably bad but the argument is far less clear-cut.
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(Er, by "zero QALY impact" I mean vaping has essentially no risk. Substituting it zeros out tobacco harms.)
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