Last week Sheila Duffy, Chief Executive of ASH Scotland, appeared in an English language episode of Turkish Radio and Television Corporation‘s “The Newsmakers” to discuss England’s approach to e-cigarettes. They also has the director of the tobacco industry front group Consumer Choice Center.
Sheila was quite strong in pointing out that Scotland, Wales and Ireland are not following England’s embrace of e-cigarettes and instead sticking to proven stop smoking therapies.
I mostly talked about our recent study showing that, for some diseases, e-cigarettes are not detectably different from cigarettes. I was also critical of the smokefree generation policy, especially as implemented in England.
Here is the full program:
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