This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, October 18th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Tobacco in Cigarette Form is the most deadly consumer product ever created. Anti-smoking camp painters have spent decades trying to get people to quit and kids to not start.

So what about e-cigarettes and vaping nicotine?

Should they be given the same treatment.

Jacob Greer is author of the rediscovery of tobacco, smoking, vaping, and the

creative destruction of the cigarette.

We recorded a live Cato Daily podcast in Cato's Hayak Auditorium this week.

The two sides of this are, one, cigarettes look really cool to this day,

and they will kill you dead.

So how has at least in the United States

handled those two facts in, let's say say the 20th century.

Well, we started by only knowing the first part,

which is that they made people look cool.

And if you look, say, just prior to the 20th century,

Americans were using a lot of tobacco, but they weren't smoking cigarettes.

They were chewing tobacco, they were smoking pipes, they were smoking cigars,

they might be hand rolling their own little cigarettes.

But the cigarette as we know it today is still a very niche product. And there's a couple

reasons for that. One was the type of tobacco used. It wasn't until the 1850s when you were able to flu cure tobacco and kind of lower the pH that for the first time you had tobacco that actually felt good to inhale deeply into your lungs.

And then the second was economic convention. good to inhale deeply into your lungs.

And then the second was economic conventions

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