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Smoking rates in Australia increased by more than 21,000 to 2.4 million between 2013 and 2016. “For the first time, there has been no statistically significant decrease in smoking rates, and an increase in the number of smokers in Australia,” said renowned public health expert Colin Mendelsohn in 2017.

He has pointed out that for the first time, Australia’s smoking rates have exceeded those in the US. “This is despite plain packaging and the most expensive cigarette prices in the world.” A pack of cigarettes in Australia costs an average of $25.10, while in the UK it costs $14.80 and $8.50 in the US. Unfortunately, given the restrictions on safer alternatives back then, the situation remains unchanged.

Public health experts who advocate for the use of e-cigarettes for harm reduction clearly show that the “punishment and coercion” approach adopted by the country is not working. Supporting their argument is data from the UK, where the opposite approach has been adopted and smoking rates have reached an all-time low.

To this effect, an article in the Post states that while vaping may not be the ideal way to quit smoking, dismissing it as a useful method when it has proven effective is illogical. “Nicotine vaping is one of the most effective ways to quit smoking. It’s not perfect – not consuming nicotine at all is preferable – but it’s much safer than inhaling smoke into the lungs. It’s not nicotine that causes lung and heart disease, but the thousands of other chemicals in smoke.”

The UK still leads in tobacco harm reduction

The article further refers to Public Health England’s often-cited research, which is regularly updated and continues to show year after year that vaping is at least 95% safer than smoking. In fact, the agency’s seventh independent report on vaping in the UK highlights the following points.

“Vaping was the most popular aid (27.2%) used by smokers trying to quit in England in 2020

More than 50,000 smokers quit smoking in 2017 with the help of vaping

38% of smokers believe that vaping is as harmful as smoking while 15% believe that vaping is more harmful”

Hong Kong passes vape ban

Unfortunately, Hong Kong’s vape ban has now been passed, and while it targets local businesses by preventing the sale and import of vaping products. Local policymakers approved the Smoking (Public Health) (Amendment) Bill 2019 by a vote of 32 to three in the Legislative Council, approximately six years after the idea was first mooted.

Tobacco harm reduction experts worldwide, including Mendelsohn, have warned Asian countries about the impact of implementing the ban. They urged local policymakers to refer to data from Australia as evidence for their arguments.

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