Vaping: helpful or harmful?
New Zealand is putting its faith in e-cigarettes as part of the arsenal of quitting tools available to help us reach our target of being smoke free by 2025 As Italy went into lockdown to stop the spread of Covid-19, among the businesses to be closed were vape shops. But then the Italian government did a U-turn and allowed them to stay open, largely thanks to lobbying from one man, respiratory specialist Riccardo Polosa. He pointed out that if Italy’s million or so vapers couldn’t access e-cigarettes, they were going to turn to smoking tobacco instead to meet their nicotine needs, damaging their health...