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Health care costs are not linearly related with age. The bulk of cost, at least in the US, are within the last six months of life, whenever you die. Dying younger might save money if tobacco worked like the classic massive coronary at 50, where there were no symptoms to trigger medical care, it...

Except that we have to pay for the health effects. Literally. Cancer, heart disease, CLRD/COPD, etc. All very expensive, long lasting health conditions that take decades to kill you. Given the mean age of onset of severe symptoms is in the 60s and 70s, that means Medicare is picking up most of...

Given that online retailers and smoke shops are the major sources, and the teen market is a major driver for product development, it will be a lot harder to get vapes than it was. How the market shifts is a different question. Of course, if you really want to get nasty, license and regulate...

21 year olds hanging out with 14 year olds is unusual and hella sketchy. 18 year olds hanging out with 14 year olds is just another day at Podunk High. While I don't think bans will be effective, if you see 18yr olds as the Juul conduit into your student body, cutting off their ability to...

We were actually doing a lot to decrease tobacco use when we took away glamorous advertising and a lot of the hot men and women smoking on TV and film. We did a lot more when we disconnected the social aspect of smoking by forcing smokers to go outside away from everyone else. Nothing makes...

That only works to a point. You ultimately end up creating a glamor of evil, where you're a hotshot for handling the evil. You also are faced with suggesting people defer immediate gratification (cigarettes are cool and I am gonna totally get laid a lot now if I smoke) for long term payoffs (not...

Will raising tobacco sale price to 21 work to keep people from starting to smoke? About as well as alcohol being limited to 21, or tobacco to 18. Prohibition is ineffective in the face of desire. Much more effective policy is to make cigarettes or vaping something gross, disgusting, and to...

It was, as tobacco became less socially acceptable and a habit of poor people. Vaping has reversed that trend. If you look at the advertising and especially the social media presence of Juul and other e-cigarette makers, they are returning to many of the pre-lung cancer cigarette ads...

Except that it doesn't. The e-cigarette manufacturers fought tooth and nail to avoid vapes being classified as a smoking cessation device. There's also a large body of data that vapes are just replacing cigarettes for those who can afford it, or driving them back to cigarettes if they can't...