"Zambia: British American Tobacco allegedly lobbied to weaken tobacco control bill
Cigarette smoke contains numerous toxins and carcinogens, contributing to air pollution
There is far, far more to this than just numbers and measurements and the sooner those of us who are generally on side with harm reduction can get those who are ideologically opposed to harm reduction (and that is *exactly* what it is, given the very strong evidence of the relative harms from e-cigs and lit tobacco there is now no excuse to claim otherwise) to stop spreading their utter crap in the press be it mendacious statistics twiddling (such as in the US, where they deliberately conflate lit tobacco which kills and smokeless tobacco of any kind which quite simply, does not), or openly lying, as recently done by a senior tobacco control wonk in Australia, where it was claimed that smoking levels in the US havent dropped but have in fact risen
38-42 This is in line with the statement from Public Health England (PHE, now under the UKHSA) that, compared with cigarette smoke, heated tobacco products are likely to expose users and bystanders to lower levels of particulate matter, and harmful and potentially harmful compounds
