Health

Thu Dec 1

How e-cigarettes could 'health wash' the tobacco industry

Written by Ross MacKenzie, Lecturer in Health Studies, Macquarie University

Classifying e-cigarettes as a nicotine replacement therapy could help the tobacco industry influence health policy.from www.shutterstock.com

The evidence that e-cigarettes help people quit smoking was described in the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) recent report as “scant and of low certainty”. Predictably, this triggered the...

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