These concerns have sparked polarised debates within public health, with proponents of e-cigarettes emphasising individual harm reduction and critics warning of population-level risks, particularly among vulnerable groups [11]
Aisha Kehoe Down, Gaston Sawadogo and Tom Stocks, British American Tobacco fights dirty in West Africa, OCCRP, 26 February 2021, Interview with Dr Hana Ross, Principal Research Officer at the Economics of Excisable Products Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, 27 July 2022, by phone
In summary, the initial appeal of pouches to smokers is likely to be more limited than the appeal of products that resemble smoking more closely, but in terms of nicotine delivery and effects on urges to smoke, nicotine pouches have good potential to replace smoking
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