E-cigarettes-aid to smoking cessation or smokescreen?

摘要

The Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) attributed 6-3 million deaths to tobacco smoking in 2010, including those caused by second-hand smoke. This stark number reflects a crippling toll of ill health that is over-rep resented in those economically disadvantaged or mentally ill. Smokers often start young and struggle to escape the addictive elements of tobacco, whether chemical or cultural. Tobacco creates a dilemma for politicians the world over-to take comprehensive actions to curtail tobacco use, including smoke-free policies, progressive taxation, and provision of cessation services, or to follow the path of inaction in the interests of commerce and a seductive but specious protection of personal freedoms.