Entonox works quickly
"They didn't say, 'How do we change marketing rules to give an advantage to low-risk products?' They didn't say, 'How do we change tax policy?'They didn't say, 'Let's run massive campaigns to inform people.' They just made one alternative available, and here we are seven years later." Japan's massive reduction in cigarette sales is less the result of intentional policy than it is a bottom-up response from tobacco consumers making their own decisions to try a safer alternative
If the FDA would approve mentholated versions of these less harmful substitutes, it would give menthol smokers who dont wish to quit a safer and legal option without causing the damage created by criminalization (and would mitigate illicit menthol cigarette sales if they were banned)
R., Swank, H., Schoones, J
The FDA offered no meaningful justification for ripping a hole in the statutory framework, according to the lawsuit filed by the American Heart Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and others
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