There is far, far more to this than just numbers and measurements and the sooner those of us who are generally on side with harm reduction can get those who are ideologically opposed to harm reduction (and that is *exactly* what it is, given the very strong evidence of the relative harms from e-cigs and lit tobacco there is now no excuse to claim otherwise) to stop spreading their utter crap in the press be it mendacious statistics twiddling (such as in the US, where they deliberately conflate lit tobacco which kills and smokeless tobacco of any kind which quite simply, does not), or openly lying, as recently done by a senior tobacco control wonk in Australia, where it was claimed that smoking levels in the US havent dropped but have in fact risen
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Jan Hein Strter, VSK director, attributed the situation to rising taxes in the Dutch media, saying, People were used to fixed prices, and now the norm is to opt for cheaper alternatives, whether foreign or on the black market. In his opinion, the tax burden has barely reduced the number of smokers (which fell from 20% in 2020 to 18% in 2024), and he proposes harmonizing these rates with neighboring countries, combating the illegal market, and supervising digital sales channels
