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HEALTH experts are urging the World Health Organisation not to ‘control and suppress’ e-cigarettes. More than 50 researchers and public health specialists have sent a letter to the organisation claiming the devices could save millions of lives. They say regulations like those on conventional cigarettes are a bad idea. The move came as the WHO prepares to publish global guidelines on the devices. ‘These products could be among the most significant health innovations of the 21st century, perhaps saving hundreds of millions of lives,’ says the letter. ‘If regulators treat low-risk nicotine products as traditional tobacco products... they are improperly defining them as part of the problem.’ It adds: ‘Regulators should avoid support for measures that could have the perverse effect of prolonging cigarette consumption.’ The letter’s signatories include Prof
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Robert West, a health expert at University College London, and advisers to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. They published the letter after claiming to have seen a leaked document from the WHO, which labelled e-cigarettes as a ‘threat’. The WHO said it was working on recommendations for ‘the regulation and marketing of e-cigarettes’. It added: ‘This is part of a paper that will be submitted to the parties of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control later this year.’ Recent research by Prof West said e-cigarettes can improve the success rate for people trying to quit smoking by 60 per cent compared to nicotine patches or gum. Critics say not enough is known about long-term effects of the devices, which deliver nicotine in a vapour.
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