Existing evidence demonstrates that non-tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes, including menthol flavored e-cigarettes, have a known and substantial risk with regard to youth appeal, uptake and use
This is an important distinction: reduced exposure and reduced harms are not the same thing, meaning exposure to fewer toxic ingredients, especially in the context of dual use of both e-cigarettes and combustible products, does not necessarily mean lower levels of harm when people use the product
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The fiber may capture larger particles first, while carbon targets some vapors after that
"Some smokers say they don't even look at it, but there has been research which shows that with the people who engage in those avoidance strategies, it's actually a predictor of them quitting later on." All this came on top of anti-smoking campaigns that have been driving down smoking rates in Australia since the 1970s