Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Abstract
Indonesia has announced it will be banning e-cigarettes. But that would do nothing to reduce smoking, which should be the main target of those interested in reducing tobacco use deaths and harms. Rather than ban e-cigarettes, it makes more sense to regulate them effectively so that they can serve as a useful anti-smoking tool. The availability of e-cigarettes to smokers can also make much more aggressive anti-smoking strategies more practically and politically viable-–perhaps even paving the way for banning cigarettes, instead.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Gostin, Lawrence O., "Indonesia Has It Backward: It's Not E-Cigarettes That's the Problem but Smoking" (2015). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1488.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1488
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