{"id":39,"date":"2019-01-30T07:43:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T07:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacobgrier.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2019-09-06T20:51:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T20:51:34","slug":"new-at-slate-vaping-and-smoker-stigma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/30\/new-at-slate-vaping-and-smoker-stigma\/","title":{"rendered":"New at Slate: Vaping and smoker stigma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first piece of the year is up at Slate, taking a look at how decades of stigmatizing smoking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2019\/01\/vaping-is-good-anti-smoker-bias.html\">now clouds the current debate over vaping<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This is particularly fascinating because the innovations that make safer nicotine consumption possible arrived in a time of cultural realignment with regard to the use of various psychoactive substances. University of London historian Virginia Berridge has noted that western societies are increasingly willing to distinguish between \u201cuse\u201d and \u201cproblem use\u201d for cannabis and some other illegal drugs. And yet still, any use of tobacco is seen as inherently problematic. \u201cTobacco was changing places to become more like a drug, while drug use itself was becoming \u2018normalized\u2019 and part of a wide spectrum of substance use in society,\u201d writes Berridge in her 2013 book&nbsp;<em>Demons<\/em>, which tracks attitudes toward alcohol, tobacco, and drugs from the early 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century to the present day. \u201cFrom the 1980s onward, new ideas about drug use tended to see it as more \u2018normal\u2019 while tobacco smoking became seen as pathological.\u201d<\/p><p>These attitudes are so pervasive that they\u2019ve ended up threatening the most promising product yet for tobacco harm reduction, forcing vapor advocates into a defensive posture couched in purely medical terms. And while the harm reduction case for e-cigarettes is compelling, I\u2019d like to suggest a more radical proposal for how we should approach regulating the product: recognize adults\u2019 ownership of their own bodies. Approach vaping not as mere medicine (it\u2019s more than that) or just another form of smoking (it\u2019s much safer), and treat it as one of many moderately risky activities that consenting adults should be free to engage in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2019\/01\/vaping-is-good-anti-smoker-bias.html\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first piece of the year is up at Slate, taking a look at how decades of stigmatizing smoking\u00a0now clouds the current debate over vaping: This is particularly fascinating because the innovations that make safer nicotine consumption possible arrived in a time of cultural realignment with regard to the use of various psychoactive substances. University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jacobgrier.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}