We know the UK is vape-friendly – but can Khan influence the rest of the world?
The review of England’s tobacco policy commissioned by the British government and compiled by Javed Khan has attracted much attention for its enthusiastic endorsement of e-cigarettes as a path to smoking cessation.
It certainly seems to strengthen the likelihood that the UK will retain its place as one of the most officially pro-vaping countries in the world (and maybe we didn’t even need a 101-page document to confirm that; there are few signs of back-pedalling). But could it also have lessons for the rest of the world, even for countries where there is far more hostility toward novel tobacco products?
Two academics, one British and one American, believe it should be required reading in the halls of US tobacco-control power. They – Caitlin Notley of the University of East Anglia and Clifford Douglas of the University of Michigan’s Tobacco Research Network – argue in a new article that “the UK and New Zealand are now leading the way in the battle to end the epidemic of smoking-related illness and death. The US can learn from them.”
Barnaby Page – ECigIntelligence – 2022-07-07
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