Irish Examiner view: A ban gone up in smoke

Popularity of vaping

There has been widespread acceptance of vaping in recent years. Picture: Nick Ansell/PA Wire

Given what we have learned in recent decades, it’s entertaining now to see old cigarette advertisements featuring doctors and athletes promoting various brands for being smoother or less irritating. 

One famous ad even claimed its cigarettes were better because the tobacco was “toasted”, as though that somehow reduced its culpability in giving users an assortment of deadly diseases.