You said you didn't want your friends & family to die early, you wanted to help them quit smoking.

You found a tool that could help.

You were called crazy, naive, misinformed, wrong...accused of targeting kids & even working for Big Tobacco.
Meanwhile, your friends & family continued to die early from lung cancer, COPD, heart disease, & strokes. They believed the fear, uncertainty, & doubt being promoted by threatened interest groups who were using this as a fundraising tool to raise hundreds of millions of dollars.
Today, in an unprecedented show of unity, the world's leading experts in tobacco control & nicotine science united to publish this call to action in @AMJPublicHealth.

It's very clear.

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.210…

You were right.
These products are helpful. They are good.

We do need common-sense regulations, but they must be fair and preserve the ability for this exciting technology to end death & disease from smoking...forever.
We call on caring people worldwide to unite around the evidence, seek to reduce harm wherever possible, & work together to fix the damage caused by the conflicted special interest groups we highlighted in our film & their media campaigns.

The truth must be known.

#ABillionLives

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14) Why weren’t any people who smoke cigarettes invited to this meeting? What about neutral young people? Doesn’t their voice matter?

We’d love answers below.
13) Why do the health activists say there is no increase in adults using nicotine vapor products? There are 40,000,000 adults worldwide using this technology. The majority formerly smoked cigarettes.
12) Should we be more worried about kids using a product that has resulted in no deaths OR the estimated 7,000,000 adults who die each year from smoking-related illnesses? That’s a big question that needs to be figured out as a society.
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