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E-cigarettes: Neither ban nor permit, but reduce harm
Balanced approaches have worked to tackle the problem of substance abuse and HIV/Aids. They can work to curb the harms caused by smoking too.
An interesting debate on the pros and cons of e-cigarettes has taken place in these pages.
It started with a commentary by Professor Tikki Pang and Ms Gayle Amu (Why a ban on e-cigarettes may not be the best policy; ST, June 9) in which they suggested that Singapore might consider permitting the use of e-cigarettes as an option to reduce the disease burden of smoking by encouraging smokers to substitute cigarettes with less harmful products.
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