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Skip Murray opened a vape shop with her son in Minnesota in 2015, which was forced to close due to ever burdensome FDA regulations, the pandemic and the EVALI misinformation scandal. She has since become a tireless advocate for safer nicotine products.
Contrary to global trends, smoking rates in the two countries - where lawmakers have heavily regulated vapes alongside far more dangerous cigarettes - are set to rise over the next few years.
Finland plans to raise taxes on tobacco products but not vapes and e-liquids.
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to rethink tough new laws to restrict vaping amid fears it could fuel a massive black market.
Over half of smokers who used vaping products successfully quit or cut down
Countries that embrace harm reduction have fewer smokers
Based on it's current trajectory, the EU won't be smoke free until the year 2100
Non-smokers aren't interested in safer nicotine products
Smoking rates have stagnated in European Union countries where less harmful nicotine alternatives are not readily available, new data reveals.
A hospital nurse has said he feels far healthier after ditching cigarettes for vaping, as figures show vaping is the most successful aid to quitting smoking.
The reason safer nicotine products exist is to reduce the number of people who smoke, and by extension the death and disease associated with smoking.
7.69 million deaths are attributable to smoking every year, so finding safer alternatives to smoking has huge potential to improve public health. Alternatives like vaping.
