WELLINGTON, New Zealand New Zealand has released a plan that would eventually ban sales of cigarettes in that countrysomething one health expert said could have global implications
And is that because again, just going back to all the anti-smoking campaigns that I learned about when I was a kid that the carcinogenic parts of, let's say, of cigarettes, comes from the combustion products of tobacco
See also The health risks of using e-cigarettes Potential harmful health effects of inhaling nicotine-free shisha-pen vapor: a chemical risk assessment of the main components propylene glycol and glycerol (Dutch only, English synopsis) Background paper of TRS 989 - Report of the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation Factsheet Shisha pen (appendix in English) E-cigarette factsheet
Probably helps some people, but probably not most
These histories remind us that the struggle over enclosure and toxicity is also a struggle over whose lives, labor, and environments are considered disposable within projects of capitalist modernization