In the moral panic over vaping, we risk forgetting that cigarettes kill | Martha Gill
Bans and taxes on the most popular and effective aid for giving up smoking could lead to a major health crisisImagine we’d found a way to get millions of people to switch from alcohol, which in this country kills 10,000 people a year, to another kind of substance: still addictive, still not risk-free, but when compared with the booze, pretty harmless. Coffee, say.A public health miracle is hailed. Liver units are empty. Heart surgeons spend more time on the golf course, and costly government prevention programmes close. Millions chink into NHS coffers. Continue reading...
Bans and taxes on the most popular and effective aid for giving up smoking could lead to a major health crisis
Imagine we’d found a way to get millions of people to switch from alcohol, which in this country kills 10,000 people a year, to another kind of substance: still addictive, still not risk-free, but when compared with the booze, pretty harmless. Coffee, say.
A public health miracle is hailed. Liver units are empty. Heart surgeons spend more time on the golf course, and costly government prevention programmes close. Millions chink into NHS coffers. Continue reading...
