India, Feb. 21 -- Growing health consciousness is coming down hard, cracking down on all forms of smoking and condemning all nicotine consumption as harmful to health. Smoking is an alarming public health concern, with health experts worldwide urging smokers to quit, even recommending less harmful alternatives.

Many people despite the well-documented health dangers struggle to quit. So to make quitting easy, other less harmful alternatives are sought.

One such alternative is vaping, which is not as harmful as traditional smoking but is not risk-free either, as it still contains nicotine. However, the widespread antagonizing of vaping, sometimes with inappropriate misinformation, appears to be backfiring.

A study published in the journa...