WHO-commissioned report on e-cigarettes misleading, say experts
Saturday, September 6, 2014 - 00:30
in Psychology & Sociology
World leading tobacco experts argue that a recently published World Health Organization-commissioned review of evidence on e-cigarettes contains important errors, misinterpretations and misrepresentations, putting policy-makers and the public in danger of foregoing the potential public health benefits of e-cigarettes. The authors, writing today in the journal Addiction, analyze the WHO-commissioned Background Paper on E-cigarettes, which looks to have been influential in the recently published WHO report calling for greater regulation of e-cigarettes.