3/2/2023 0 Comments The madcap![]() They reckon this would have a big effect in deterring children from using e-cigarettes, but would have no effect at all on adults. The APPG report accepts that vaping is not a ‘pathway into smoking’ and it is dismayed that vaping rates fell in 20 due to ‘misperceptions of the risks’, but it nevertheless wants standardised packaging for e-cigarette products, thereby sending a message that they are as bad as smoking. The one issue ASH has been reasonably sensible on in recent years has been e-cigarettes. It really is that simple.ĭid I mention that ASH has been scraping the barrel recently? 10) ‘Reduce the appeal and availability of e-cigarettes and other nicotine products to children’ ![]() Neither argument stands up because a highly infectious, potentially fatal disease spreading through the community is a collective-action problem whereas people smoking tabs is not. The APPG report says: ‘We are taking the necessary steps to end the coronavirus pandemic we must do the same for smoking.’ This argument is the flipside to the claim sometimes made by some lockdown ‘refuseniks’ who say that since the government has not banned smoking, it should not do anything about Covid-19. Secondly, lots of people have just died in an epidemic and ASH is keen to draw a parallel with the ‘tobacco epidemic’. ![]() But the target now hangs in the air as if it were a genuine collective commitment. She didn’t consult anybody about it, let alone smokers, nor did she suggest how it could be achieved. First, when Theresa May was prime minister she set Britain the target of going ‘tobacco-free’ by 2030. There are two hooks for the new ASH / APPG report.
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