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In June, the Food and Drug Administration announced it was banning the sale of all Juul products, saying the company played a disproportionate role in the rise in youth vaping. Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes hailed the decision as an enormous step forward in our fight to protect our kids. But that seeming victory was short-lived: In early July, the FDA switched course and put a temporary stay on its order so it could further investigate unspecified scientific issues. That decision, perhaps counterintuitively, was celebrated by a less vocal but growing group of tobacco researchers and public health officials who believe that e-cigarettes can help save the lives of current smokers
That last argument that tobacco companies are looking out for the poor angers public-health officials because studies show such taxes are especially effective at reducing smoking among lower-income people
Furthermore, the criterion of temporal precedence for causality states that if vaping causes smoking, then vaping must come before smoking