Mexico bans vapes. Cartels take over the market.

Asinine. Vapes is the single best invention in the past 20 years for lowering the rates of cancer. Far and away outperforming every other tobacco quitting product or cancer treatment out there. The medical establishment was literally promoting drugs that literally caused people to commit suicide. When combined with relatively small amounts of drinking it would lead to people wandering around in their sleep doing insane shit. Side effects listed on the labels of these "smoking cessation drugs" was "suicidal thoughts, hostility, aggression, and psychotic reactions.". Some of them caused seizures and had hugely negative interactions with commonly used drugs. This is the shit that was being promoted by the "medical establishment" over vape products. And the governments are doing everything they can to reverse real progress and deliver the entire market into underground crap from China instead of allowing a healthy domestic market to flourish. All because it wasn't their idea first. Nicotine isn't even known to be carcinogenic itself. It is the burning of the plant matter and the dozens of other chemicals they add to tobacco products to increase its addictive properties is the primary source of lung cancer. Nicotine is addictive and that contributes to smoking habits and Nicotine is suspected in having stimulating effect on tumors, but it is unlikely to be the cause all by itself. This is 100% purely a case of bureaucracy running amok. Decades ago anti-smoking crusaders got governments to dump millions of dollars into creating vast bureaucracies to regulate tobacco products in motion. And now they just exist... perpetuating themselves uselessly. Much like a cancer tumor themselves. They exist, they feed, and they regulate mindlessly. This sort of crap is all over the place. Zombie administration agencies are all over the place and are a constant in all western governments. They implemented these vast administration agencies and set them into motion and they just continue on and on and on forever. There is no ability to curtail them or remove them or reform them or fix their policy agendas in the face of new technology and better science. They were created to solve problems that existed 30 or 40 years ago and now that they are in motion they just continue on like mindless robotrons. Just steam rolling over everything within their mandates. Regardless of whether or not it makes sense or continued effectiveness.