The journey towards a smoke-free world has been complex, with various entities working tirelessly to navigate the intricacies. Sweden has emerged as a star, effectively managing its smoking prevalence down to an impressive 5.6 percent from over 30 percent in the 1980s. This remarkable turnaround places the nation on the precipice of achieving smoke-free status […]
The success story suggests that a smoke-free society can be attained more swiftly through a comprehensive, non-prohibitionist approach. This involves embracing both traditional measures and innovative solutions, catering to individual preferences, ensuring affordability, and providing easy access to safer nicotine alternatives.
Seems obvious when you put it like that. Banning can create a sort of Streisand effect, and steadily increasing tax doesn’t do much at all. Hope the safer alternatives don’t incentivise excessive usage.
Basically showing that “abstinence only” approaches are rarely the correct approach. I went from smoking -> vaping -> pouch -> nothing. It was a long journey but it worked.
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Seems obvious when you put it like that. Banning can create a sort of Streisand effect, and steadily increasing tax doesn’t do much at all. Hope the safer alternatives don’t incentivise excessive usage.
Basically showing that “abstinence only” approaches are rarely the correct approach. I went from smoking -> vaping -> pouch -> nothing. It was a long journey but it worked.
I still think that banning nicotine pouches is among the top 5 dumbest things that my country’s current Labour government has done.
Over here the pouches aren’t classified as nicotine product for some reason, so they aren’t age restricted. So the kids start on them.