Martin Dockrell, the head of tobacco control at PHE, said there was a spectrum of opinion in the UK and US on e-cigarettes. While abstinence-only is the dominant view in tobacco control, “they also apply that to nicotine replacement therapy but also to e-cigarettes”. “Alcohol, smoked tobacco, cannabis, smoking or vaping – all of them are legal but the least harmful is e-cigarettes and they’ve banned them. Juul was created in San Francisco and now has more than a 50% share of the US market. British American Tobacco, Altria (the parent company of Philip Morris), Imperial and Japan Tobacco have all diversified into e-cigarettes.

Source: The Guardian June 29, 2019 06:56 UTC