Juul says its products are helping adults to quit smoking cigarettes but at the same time the company is also heavily marketing its products to young people who never smoked before and become addicted to vaping
According to the fifth cigarette package health warning status report, internationally there has been tremendous progress in countries implementing pictorial health warnings on cigarette packaging
There have also been some changes in methodology in the same surveys within the same country over time, and data collection for many of the surveys was impacted by COVID-19 in 202021
Reinskje Talhout is a Senior Scientist in the Centre for Health Protection, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands
* Which sort of reminds me of the Hays Code in the States from the 1930s up to the late 60s films werent allowed to show explicit murder or sex (Excessive and lustful kissing, lustful embraces, suggestive postures and gestures, are not to be shown), so film-makers devised inventive visual metaphors and other tricks, some not so subtle, such as a train entering a tunnel, to suggest the sexual act