They might also point out that the Australian government has gone out of its way to portray vaping as being at least as bad as smoking
The industry has also funded their own science to discredit existing independent research on their products, and pays the media to publish sponsored articles theyve written, such as this one which appeared on TimesLIVE in November 2024, arguing there is sufficient evidence that electronic tobacco products are safe and effective harm-reduction tools, or this one published by News24 in January, boosting British American Tobacco-sponsored studies that underplay the potential harm of the chemical contained in electronic products, says Lekan Ayo-Yusuf, public health expert from the University of Pretoria and a member of the WHOs study group on tobacco product regulation
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