This kind of “public health” activism is so obviously mathematically wrong, in terms of lives saved and suffering avoided, that I can only conclude it’s motivated by an unacknowledged moral intuition that smokers only deserve to get healthy if it makes them miserable first.
Given what we know about poor success rates for quitting, it seems to be better for a few smokers to quit, with marginally better health outcomes than vapers, while most try and fail and go back to smoking, than for all those smokers to switch to vaping.
The logic eludes me unless the aim is to punish smokers by giving them cancer, heart attacks, and or COPD
