"The take home message is that all smokers should stop smoking, even if they smoke only occasionally, or if they smoke very few cigarettes a day," Jean-Francois Etter, a researcher at the University of Geneva in Switzerland who wasn't involved in the study, said in an email
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Several studies show the marketing and advertising works, and increases the likelihood that youth will start smoking
Stigmatizing vapor products, which contain no tobacco and treating them the same as combustible tobacco while actively seeking to economically penalize smokers attempting to switch is counterproductive to public health. Critics also suggest that the tighter restrictions on smoking could create a black market of illegal cigarette sales
For instance, women from poorest households were four times (CI 2.387.14) more likely to use any form of tobacco than women from richest households (Table 2)