“The traditional approach of most governments and anti-tobacco organizations to reduce the number of smokers remains to advocate abstinence from all tobacco products, either by spontaneously quitting smoking or by consuming nicotine substitutes that are approved by the medical community (gums, patches, or pharmacological agents). However, technology has now evolved to explain the causes of smoking related diseases and helped provide better alternatives for smokers in the forms of smoke free tobacco and nicotine products. Unfortunately, due to these reduced risk products being associated with either tobacco or nicotine, are mostly cast aside and in most countries advocated against without even being vetted. It is, therefore, time to modernize tobacco control taking into account the harm reduction that new non-combustible tobacco products, in particular electronic cigarettes, can bring.”
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Modernizing the fight against Tobacco
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