@BeAware You said it yourself: *less* nasty.
Not clean. Not safe. Not pleasant to be around. Not cool looking. Just less of each of those than smoking.
A smoker who switches to vaping is, on balance, a good thing. I wouldn’t celebrate anybody settling on it permanently, though, any more than I would celebrate them switching to a “lighter” tobacco product. And a non-smoker picking up vaping isn’t something to be celebrated at all.
And you do look fucking ridiculous when you do it.