Knowing how challenging it can be to quit smoking, Andrea King, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, wanted to find a treatment that could help smokers to quit, particularly those who would describe themselves as heavy drinkers
The WHO wants governments to prevent e-cigarette manufacturers from making claims about their products' capacity to improve people's health by helping them quit unless and until they provided "convincing supporting scientific evidence and obtain regulatory approval." There is still only limited evidence that e-cigarettes do help people quit, which "does not allow conclusions to be reached" on that point, it added
Among the changes are strengthening health-related messages on tobacco products, extending the requirement to all tobacco packages, and beginning to rotate messages
The movement gained serious traction in the late '80s, and by the 1990s, such laws had become widespread
This underscores the importance of avoiding an unregulated environment for vaping, Ong said
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