you're incorrect on many points.
1) Vaping isn't banned in CT, they're considering it https://vtdigger.org/2021/02/25/lawmakers-thinking-again-about-a-ban-on-flavored-e-cigarettes-and-menthol/. It is banned in several states but CT vermont have no vape ban. NY, and CA (off the top of my head) do. The FDA is also about to completely ban vape juice because they steal money from tobacco companies (who were getting into vaping), which in turn reduces the money tobacco companies send to states under the tobacco master settlement agreement.
2) most people I know (myself included) have vaped for years almost decades and we're just as healthy as nonsmokers at this point. There's nothing in them that are dangerous. If you've been around a fog machine in your life, it's those same ingredients + a flavoring.
3) It's well known that vaping is miles healthier than smoking cigarettes. there's been thousands of stories about it, america is just (once again) ass backwards.
4) all the vaping illnesses is because of one specific thing that isn't even nicotine related. it's people vaping vitamin E oil that cuts the THC oil in cartomizers. Not nicotine. and only shitty homemade / bootleg THC oil has honeycut in them. I've vaped hundreds of them and never had any issues with them.
My mom had lung cancer twice. That's why I vape instead of smoking. My doctor can't even tell I vape from the tests they've done.