Fab 5 Freddy, also known as Fred Brathwaite, is a man of prodigious talents. [...] Fab 5 Freddy is also one of the many American adults who have managed to quit smoking by switching to flavored nicotine vapes. In the recent drug panic generated around vaping, leading to a series of bans on e-cigarettes and vape flavors, he sees eerie parallels with “Reefer Madness” depictions of marijuana. [...] “The overall message,” he noted, “is like, ‘All vaping is killing people and we need to ban it all immediately,’ which feels a lot like the kind of hysteria around cannabis.”