The anti-smoking campaign

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The anti-smoking campaign has been going on for more than 50 years since the 1964 US Department of Health’s smoking report, the 1965 Federal cigarette labeling and advertising law, and the 1969 Public Health Smoking Act.

Large-scale anti-smoking campaigns have tried to convince smokers to quit and discourage young people from smoking. The ultimate goal of this campaign is to ban smoking (because smoking can cause cancer, emphysema and other health problems) and prohibit addiction to nicotine. We still don’t know the results of the campaign.

Although the overall proportion of smoking in the United States fell from 24.7% in 1997 to 15.5% in 2016, tobacco companies’ profits have increased. In 2016, the American Tobacco Company earned $117 billion, a one-third increase from the $18.4 billion in 2001.

Although France does not have too many tobacco control policies, its smoking rate has also declined. What is shocking is that the Austrian-anti-tobacco activists call it the “European Ashtray”, and the Voice of Germany reported in March that the Austrian Parliament voted to abolish the ban on smoking in bars and restaurants.

The smoking rates in France and Austria lag far behind Russia, China and other Eastern European and Asian countries.

Tobacco companies are aware of the “smoke-free” trend. To create “smoke-free” e-cigarette products like Juuls and iQOS, the e-cigarette market will grow from $4.1 billion in 2017 to $30 billion in 2023.

iQOS was put on hold in the US and was approved for entry into the US market after negotiations with the US FDA 食品药品监督管理局（Food and Drug Administration）in May 2019, but it is very popular in Japan, it is said to have accounted for more than 10% of the tobacco market, and there are markets in 30 other countries. Contains Canada and the United Kingdom.

British American Tobacco also invested at least $1 billion to develop its own non-burning electronic cigarette products.

New cigarette substitutes may continue to be nicotine addictive, but still safer and healthier than smoking cigarettes, although not for the ultimate purpose, but this will not lead to the worst thing happening - cancer.

Cancer is largely caused by smoking, especially toxic substances produced by burning (non-combustible tobacco such as chewing tobacco and snuff do not have such a risk), while nicotine in tobacco causes addiction, smoking causes many harms .

In general, addiction is not a good thing, but many studies have found that nicotine addiction is more addictive than caffeine, but it is much less harmful than alcohol addiction and drug addiction. Quitting smoking generally does not require medication.

The FDA is currently planning to significantly reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes, making it “substantially non-addictive” and preventing an estimated 8 million smoking-related deaths, but this may have the opposite effect. Research data have found that the most harmful part of cigarettes is inhaled toxic substances, not nicotine.

Some studies have shown that even if e-cigarettes are started, some smokers will continue to smoke cigarettes, which mixes the known risk of smoking with the unknown risk of e-cigarettes.

Convincing smokers to switch to e-cigarettes may not stop nicotine addiction, but it seems to be safer than smoking. Anti-smoke activists may prefer that tobacco is no longer grown in the world, but people are more concerned about how to best control tobacco, rather than vain and unrealistic shouting slogans.

Since there is no evidence to prove the harmfulness of e-cigarettes, smokers should be allowed to use these safe alternatives.

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