DickyMcDoodle

Impressive, but who is playing the second guitar part and the bass?

There is limited evidence that e-cigarettes are an effective smoking cessation aid at this point in time.

Except for the entire British system that encourages vaping and sells them in hospitals...

Yeah? Try being 100kg and 5"8. I'm ever so lucky to be built like a D'n'D dwarf.

Quitting vaping is way easier than smoking. It breaks the habit - the ritual.

Because you can usually vape inside your own home as it doesn't stain the walls you aren't associating smoking with after dinner, or after you finish a drink and you can sate the craving in a satisfying way in a few puffs. It becomes something you can carry and just hit for a few secs to get a hit and keep going and vaping is less social. Apart from the serious vapers you don't have groups of people going out into the cold to vape together so it interrupts that also.

Nobody answered so here goes.

Governments predict budgets years ahead and they take taxes on cigarettes into account. Here in Australia more smokers are dying than starting at an increased rate so the tax has been going up and up for years to compensate. Cigarettes are $50 a pack now. A pouch of tobacco can top $100. They expect that money they forecast who knows how long ago and they'll do what's required to get it. I don't think they're slugging you guys with tax because y'all got guns over there. :)