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As I argued on here yesterday, the reason smoking tobacco is so damed hard to quit i...
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"Action for Smokefree 2025 director Ben Youdan told Checkpoint he was aware of high quality evidence which showed vaping was effective for people wanting to quit smoking."
"Youdan said he recognised the views of Takiri Mai Te Ata Trust and its concern for the people it helped, but a "number" of services working with Māori told them a different story, having had real success with using vaping to get people to quit smoking."
In fairness, I get that they're not going to have the references at hand during a news interview, but this hand-wavy BS just feels like "do your own research". If you have evidence, bloody well present it. Otherwise it's just CYA.
"Action for Smokefree 2025 director Ben Youdan told Checkpoint he was aware of high quality evidence which showed vaping was effective for people wanting to quit smoking."
"Youdan said he recognised the views of Takiri Mai Te Ata Trust and its concern for the people it helped, but a "number" of services working with Māori told them a different story, having had real success with using vaping to get people to quit smoking."
In fairness, I get that they're not going to have the references at hand during a news interview, but this hand-wavy BS just feels like "do your own research". If you have evidence, bloody well present it. Otherwise it's just CYA.
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