Currently under consideration in several states, is legislation that would tax electronic cigarettes as traditional tobacco cigarettes, which would be much costlier for consumers. For example, North Carolina currently taxes consumers 45 cents per pack, or 12.8% of the cost of traditional cigarettes and other tobacco products like snuff, cigars and chewing tobacco. David Powers, VP of Government Relations for R.J. Reynolds a large backer of the proposed legislation state’s “many smokers are switching from tobacco cigarettes to e-cigarettes, adding “vapor devices carry less health risk because no tobacco smoke is produced.” “We don’t want to create disincentives for smokers to try it.”

This is worth repeating: the nation's federal regulatory agency with jurisdiction over cigarettes is not sure that smoking - which kills more than 400,000 Americans each year - is any more dangerous than vaping, which involves no tobacco and no combustion and has not been shown to cause any harm. The FDA is not convinced that inhaling nicotine plus tens of thousands of chemicals and more than 60 known human carcinogens is any worse than inhaling nicotine plus propylene glycol and low levels of a few other chemicals.

This is blatant employment discrimination, and it is ugly. However, what readers should realize is that it is no more ugly than policies that refuse to hire smokers. My hope is that the obvious inappropriateness of this policy will open employers' eyes to the equal inappropriateness of refusing to hire smokers. Discriminatory hiring practices are simply wrong, and it is time that public health advocates starting standing up for justice for workers.

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