On May 28, according to foreign news reports, the latest goal of the supervision of public health bureaucracy is to flavor tobacco products, especially flavored e-cigarette products that are often popular with young people. Bans on such products are emerging across the United States, but a new study shows that these restrictions can be counterproductive-leading to fatal consequences.

Abigail S. Friedman, a professor of public health at Yale University, studied the impact of the San Francisco ban on flavoring products. Her new study published in the famous medical journal JAMA Pediatrics shows how it went wrong of.

Of course, the goal of such a ban is noble. Regulators want to prevent young people from using any nicotine-related products, some of which are still popular, even though it is illegal for people under 18 to purchase these products.

However, not all nicotine products are equally dangerous.

Although nicotine is addictive, it is not actually the cause of lung cancer. On the contrary, the tar and other carcinogens found in traditional cigarettes-but not most e-cigarette products-can cause fatal carcinogenesis. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 1,300 Americans die every day from diseases related to traditional smoking.

In contrast, public health experts concluded that e-cigarettes are 95% healthier than traditional smoking. At the same time, almost all of the much-hyped e-cigarette-related deaths are from black market THC e-cigarette products, which will only become more common as legal products are restricted.

By banning flavoured e-cigarette products that appeal to young people, regulators unknowingly encourage young people to smoke traditional cigarettes—the lethality of traditional cigarettes has doubled. This is not speculation: this is exactly what happened in San Francisco.

"Compared with other school districts, the ban on the sale of flavored tobacco products in San Francisco is related to an increase in the smoking rate of underage high school students," Friedman found. "Although the policy applies to all tobacco products, because the use of flavored tobacco among the e-cigarette population is higher, for e-cigarette teenagers, the result may be greater than that of smokers."

"This raises concerns that reducing the use of flavored electronic nicotine delivery systems may inspire young people who would otherwise use e-cigarettes instead of smoking," the study continued. "In fact, an analysis of the relationship between the minimum legal sales age for electronic nicotine delivery systems and adolescent smoking also shows this substitution."

These findings should serve as the final condemnation of the ongoing nanny war against e-cigarette products. However, there is a bigger picture here. When bureaucrats try to intervene in complex social issues and dictate individual decision-making from the top down, dysfunction and unintended consequences inevitably follow.

why?

Economist Anthony Davis and political scientist James Harrigan explained: Every human action has conscious and unintended consequences. Human beings will respond to every rule, regulation, and order imposed by relevant departments, and the result of their response may be very different from the result expected by the legislator.

Time and time again, we have seen that comprehensive regulations are counterproductive and have unintended consequences that are completely opposite to the original goal. This is what Harrigan and Davis call the cobra effect.

They told a ridiculous and inspiring story about how an Indian city offered a reward for cobras in an attempt to solve the problem of cobra infestation, but achieved the opposite result. why?

At first, more people hunted cobras to get bounty, and the number of cobras decreased. However, later people began to breed and raise cobras at home in order to get bounty again. When the government cancelled the bounty because the population seemed to be decreasing, the citizens released all the cobras they kept at home into the wild.

The end result is that the infestation of the cobra is more serious than the beginning of the city.

The same counterproductive story is happening in San Francisco. This model is no coincidence.

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