The E-cigarette Summit Opens Today at RCP London
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It has been 60 years since the groundbreaking report “Smoking and Health” was published by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), at a time when smoking prevalence was close to 70% for men and 40% for women.
Source: RCP
That report laid the foundations for tobacco control and great progress has been made in reducing smoking prevalence, which in turn gave rise to the thriving of the market of tobacco alternatives, such as e-cigarettes. According to the UK Parliament, different approaches to regulating e-cigarettes have been adopted internationally. Prior to the introduction of the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD), the UK initially regulated e-cigarettes as consumer products that were subject to existing product safety regulations. Some countries went further and banned the sale, distribution and importation of e-cigarettes, while others have no regulations in place. An alternative approach, considered by the UK Government, was to regulate all nicotine-containing e-cigarettes as medicines.
At 9 am London time, the event officially opens with the opening remark given by Prof. Ann McNeill, Professor of Tobacco Addiction & Vice Dean, Kings College London, chair of the 10th e-cigarette summit. According to Prof. Ann McNeill, tobacco control has come a long way in the UK as the smoking rate has fallen from 20% in 2013, the year when the inaugural e-cigarette summit was held, to 15% today and the vaping rate has risen in turn from 3% in 2013 and 8-9% today.
the opening of the e-cigarette summit Source: https://www.e-cigarette-summit.co.uk
Prof. Sanjay Agrawal, Professor of Respiratory Science, Institute of Lung Health of RCP, Deborah Arnott, Chief Executive of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), David Graham, Chief Impact Officer of NJOY, Liam Humberstone, Technical Director at Totally Wicked of IBVTA and more THR experts and vaping advocates attended the summit and are giving speeches today.
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