The tobacco lobby claims vaping is displacing youth smoking – a close look at the evidence tells another story

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The tobacco lobby claims vaping is displacing youth smoking – a close look at the evidence tells another story

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Sam Egger is a senior biostatistician at the Daffodil Centre, Cancer Council NSW at the University of Sydney; Becky Freeman is a Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney; Judith McCool is a Professor in Population Health at the University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, and Lucy Hardie, is a research fellow in population health at the University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

E-cigarette companies, including giants such as British American Tobacco, have actively lobbied governments in New Zealand and Australia to weaken exi, Smoking cessation graph, The rates of decline in ever smoking and smoking regularly slowed significantly from 2010 onwards, coinciding with the emergence of vaping in New Zeal