Few peopleeven in the tobacco industrywill argue with a straight face that cigarettes are safe
Its a lazy argument to say that prohibition never works or to use the US experiment from the 1920s or even the war on drugs as evidence, she says
In my time covering nicotine, I have spoken with plenty of people who emphatically believe that the drug helps them get through their day, and that their habit is no more shameful or harmful than an addiction to caffeine
Mary Bassett Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights
The state would be well placed for implementing a TFG proposal, says Dr Kathryn Barnsley, an adjunct researcher at the University of Tasmania and convenor of SmokeFree Tasmania
It remains true of the continued legal prohibition on narcotics. But Berrick points to two historical precedents for generational phase-out, in regulations that successfully curbed opium smoking in Taiwan, then known as Formosa, in 1900 and Sri Lanka a British colony at the time in 1911