Should electronic cigarettes be as freely available as tobacco? Yes
- 14 June 2013
- Vol. 346 (jun14 1), f3845
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f3845
Abstract
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has decided to license electronic cigarettes as medicines from 2016. Simon Chapman (doi:10.1136/bmj.f3840) agrees with regulation, seeing e-cigarettes as another way for big tobacco to try to make nicotine addiction socially acceptable again, but Jean-François Etter says restrictions will result in more harm to smokersKeywords
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