Lancet commentary – Nicotine without smoke: fighting the tobacco epidemic with harm reduction « The counterfactualhttps://www.clivebates.com/lancet-commentary-nicotine-without-smoke-fighting-the-tobacco-epidemic-with-harm-reduction/
Vaping and other smoke-free products have the potential to reduce the enormous harm of smoked tobacco products. The stakes of getting policy responses to smoke-free products wrong are high, especially if such restrictions stop millions of the world’s smokers accessing safer alternatives. It is disappointing that in its latest tobacco report,[3] WHO clings to outdated orthodoxy when it could embrace innovation. Equating smoke-free products with cigarettes only serves to protect the stranglehold of the cigarette trade on the world’s nicotine users and will nullify the potential of modern tobacco harm reduction strategies.