In a 2016 essay, Beware the Nanny State, in the trade magazine Tobacco Reporter , Christopher Snowdon, head of lifestyle economics at the UKs Institute of Economic Affairs (a free-market think-tank funded in part by the tobacco industry), complained that plain packaging was infantilizing consumers by stripping them of their freedom to make their own decisions in accordance with their own judgment. He added, These laws could boost organized crime, hamper investment, affect jobs and damage small businesses. That they might also save lives was none of his business
The vaping industry is taking a page out of Big Tobaccos playbook: theyre making nicotine seem cool, getting kids hooked and creating a massive public health crisis in the process, said James
New England Journal of Medicine 347(20):1585-1592.
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E-cigarettes expose users to emission that contains many toxic substances, including cancer-causing chemicals