The Debate With Electronic Cigarettes

I agree with S. Singh's article, but only to some extent. Smoking has always been a big health issue in our recent history, causing companies to stop sponsoring cigarettes' companies and causing the government to publicly discourage the public to consume such products because of their negative impacts on health. There's many proven cases of cancers and diseases caused by the sole reason of smoking, but I will not go into details because Singh's article is about e-cigs and their impacts.

Although I agree with the main point of promoting electronic cigarettes in states and allowing Texas to fully benefit from e-cigs, Singh argues that e-cigs should not be banned in bars which I don't agree with. Although e-cigs aren't dangerous to the health and don't produce the smoke and smell that comes with regular cigarettes, it's still an action; the action of smoking. Smoking in public institutions has been ruled against, and that's how it should be. E-cigs were put in the market to allow people to slowly step away from their smoking habits and of course not having to deal with the harm that regular cigarettes cause. Allowing e-cigs in public institutions only promotes the idea of smoking. It doesn't matter that e-cigs are not dangerous, they are still promoting the idea of smoking in public institutions which I don't agree with.

However, I agree with Singh's idea of promoting e-cigs. As the author stated, e-cigs don't have the 4000 chemicals that the regular cigarettes have, and that's definitely great for e-cigs. However, Texas should aim to reach out to smokers about e-cigs, give special deals on them, promote the idea of using e-cigs instead of regular cigarettes. However, I refuse with Singh that they must go out of their way and allow them in bars and such; places that smoking in general is banned. E-cigs can and will save hundreds of millions of lives, and that can easily happen; but smoking in general should be disallowed in public institutions that has already banned regular cigarettes. Our goal as a society is to eliminate regular cigarettes, and by keeping smoking in general restricted in certain places will help to do that.