An excellent presentation

An excellent presentation made to an e-cigarette summit in Washington DC. The comparison between Australia and NZ is especially interesting.

So smoking rates were similar up until 2018 in NZ and Australia, but we have dropped much lower. Why?

The NZ Government position is that vaping is less harmful than smoking, while the Australian Government sees it as a major threat and requires people to have a prescription to vape, which has resulted in the black market forming 92% of the vaping market.

The advertising campaigns are diametrically different.

And it is people who are most deprived who continue to have much worse smoking rates in Australia.

Now you might wonder who the author of this presentation is. Is he a shrill for Big Tobacco? A front person for Vaping?

No, he is the Director of ASH (NZ).