The government’s aim of regulating tobacco-free nicotine alternatives such as vapes in the same way that it regulates cigarettes runs the risk of worsening the tobacco consumption health crisis and driving first-time smokers directly to tobacco.
This is according to Quit Like Sweden (QLS), an organisation campaigning for governments worldwide to incorporate harm reduction into their country’s tobacco-related health challenge...
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