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of choice of consulting adults .
a good chance they could revert back and
He said : “ Overall , I ’ m in favour of a cancer
that ’ s totally opposite to what vaping is
plan . I lost both of my parents to cancer , so
trying to do .”
I have first-hand knowledge .
Michael Landl said the EU was in complete
“ But if you look at it from the vaping
denial about the harm-reduction concept by
perspective , vaping is not smoking , there
making the mistake of equating smoking
is no combustion going on with vaping at
with vaping . He said : “ As it stands this
all but what this European Commission
version of the EU cancer plan will not
has basically done is
be helpful in the fight
ignored science .
“ They have gotten totally on the moralistic antinicotine
“ If they ’ re really interested in reducing
against cancer .
The main problem is that the concept of harm
perspective .
cancer in Europe ,
reduction is completely
Taxation of vaping products will drive the cost up and make it less accessible to smokers looking to make a better choice in their lives .”
He described flavour
then they should take a page out of what Public Health England has done , and actually promote vaping .”
missing .
“ We all know that this very old zero tolerance approach is not very successful .
This plan has idealised goals for a tobacco-free world
bans as a “ huge , huge
instead
of
practical
mistake ”
adding :
“ Flavours
encourage
solutions to the problem .”
smokers to make a choice to disassociate
John Dunne said it was a “ skewed public
themselves from tobacco and the tobacco
health
message ”
where
governments
taste .
sought to raise vape taxes to replace
“ They are also crucial in keeping them
the funds they were losing from tobacco
from switching back to tobacco . If you are
revenue .
limited to tobacco e-liquid flavours , vapours
He said the lower cost of vaping compared
will quickly get bored with that , so there ’ s
to smoking was one of the main factors for
smokers to switch , while Michael Landl said such policies disproportionately impacted low-income groups as they tended to have the highest smoking rates . Mr Singer , who is also a medical doctor , accused many politicians of having “ an emotional antipathy towards anything that resembles smoking .” He said raising taxes only encouraged a vaping black market adding : “ If I was a smuggler of vaping equipment , I would definitely lobby for the tax to go up because this would help my business .”
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