This is the Cato Daily podcast for Monday, December 23rd, 2024.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The war on flavored e-cigarettes continues.

It ignores the bulk of the evidence about why people quit smoking, how they quit smoking,

and the evidence on why young people take up vaping to begin with.

Kato's Jeff Singer makes the case for keeping this key harm reduction tool legal and available.

Jeff, I'm going to offer my PSA up front.

Kids, don't smoke.

It's bad for you.

I smoke for many years.

I regret it.

And I vape now.

And I kind of regret that too.

I don't like particularly needing to have this product with me all the time.

But it is better for me, I think, broadly, than smoking cigarettes on a regular basis.

And vaping helped me quit.

I've not had a cigarette since 2013.

And it was the moment I found vaping.

Well, your story is very common.

People need to understand that the component of tobacco smoke

that is addictive is the nicotine. And many people, when they take up smoking for the first time,

they're not particularly enamored with the flavor of the tobacco, but as time goes by and they use it more,

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