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I recently learned this was also true of many African-Americans in the South (at least in the 50s)
"[The] mainstream of public health is vehemently opposed to vaping, and focused tunnel-vision-like on kids and vaping," according to Kenneth Warner, professor and dean emeritus of the University of Michigan School of Public Health, while it is "ignoring the adult smokers who are quitting by vaping." Such outsized fears of contaminating youth set the stage for moral panic