Decmber 29. 2004
Professor of Medicine Brad Rodu writes about how vaping bans aren't working in a must read article!
Throughout my tobacco research career I have found conventional public health professionals inflexibly intolerant of tobacco harm reduction. So I have worked with talented economists who are doctrinal agnostics. That is, they are driven by data and evidence.
And the evidence increasingly shows the damage of vapor bans.
In this guest post, Clive Bates highlights the findings of recent studies by economists.
Abigail Friedman and colleagues have published a fascinating new study on the impact of flavour bans on smoking and vaping behaviours. This one uses survey data on the prevalence of product use from 2016 to 2023 in Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) surveys.
The full article here: https://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com/2024/12/economists-document-harms-of-vapor-bans.html
