Despite arguments to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, scientists insist that e-cigarettes are ‘part of the solution’ in the fight against smoking, according to an article published on CBC news.
In an open letter to World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan, the scientists from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia said that e-cigarettes could be ‘among the most significant health innovations of the 21st century – perhaps saving hundreds of millions of lives’.
The experts also talked about the need to resist ‘the urge to control and suppress e-cigarettes as tobacco products’.
David Sweanor, a law professor at the University of Ottawa who works on tobacco control, is one of the letter signatories.
“We’re here to try to get rid of cigarettes, we’re here to try to make cigarettes obsolete and we have the potential with technology to start to do that, and that would be one of the biggest breakthroughs we’ve ever had in public health,” he said.
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