Well, safer the cigarettes.

People say that there's no reason to smoke an e-cig unless you're trying to quit smoking cigs, but there's also no reason to ever want to smoke cigarettes, and yet we have booming industries coming from both products.

Honestly, if kids are going to get hooked on something, I think I'm still glad that they're choosing the lesser of two evils, even if it's still shitty for them.

I mean, in your article and in the original article the consensus is that e-cigs are less dangerous, and we see quotes like,

The decline in cigarette use among teenagers accelerated substantially from 2013 to 2014, dropping by 25 percent, the fastest pace in years.

The pattern seemed to go against the dire predictions of anti-tobacco advocates that e-cigarettes would become a gateway to cigarettes among youths, and suggested they might actually be helping, not hurting. The pattern resembled those in Sweden and Norway, where a rise in the use of snus, a smokeless tobacco product, was followed by a sharp decline in cigarette use.

I'm not saying that e-cigs are good, and I definitely don't think people should be using them, but let's not pretend like this isn't better than kids smoking regular cigarettes--unless there's some way to prove that this will lead them onto that, which seems dubious, given, again, that,

“They’re not a gateway in, and they might be accelerating the gateway out,” said David B. Abrams, executive director of the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies, an anti-tobacco group.