Don’t fall for the alarmist claims linking coronavirus to vaping

Shameless and fact-free politicization of the coronavirus was sadly inevitable in our hyperpolarized society, but the latest example really is a doozy: Some hacks are now trying to use the coronavirus pandemic to be fearmongers about e-cigarettes and further fuel the vaping panic.

Nanny-state aficionados have already misled the public by falsely tying deaths due to black market products to legal vaping and e-cigarette products as a means of driving their anti-vaping regulatory agenda forward. Now, some are claiming, without much evidence, that vaping makes one more susceptible to the coronavirus.