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"The public will have a much less harmful alternative to tobacco products," Mr. Story said.
Imagine if we end up allowing smoking to continue, while banning a much less harmful alternative that could help some people to quit.
They do not use tobacco, leading many people to see them as a less harmful alternative to normal cigarettes, and as a way of helping smokers to quit.
Keurig is hardly unaware of criticism about the environmental impact of its products, though a company spokeswoman declined to address whether the Freedom Clip offered consumers a reasonable stopgap measure until Keurig could offer its own less harmful alternative.
Anti-smoking group Ash estimates there are now 2.6 million 'vapers' in the UK - with e-cigarette firms frequently marketing their products as being a cheaper and less harmful alternative to conventional smoking.
It will be interesting to see when the next legal high comes along – as it surely has already – whether the media or politicians will pause to reflect on the role that banning a potentially less harmful alternative will have played in any deaths apparently caused by its replacement.
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At a meeting in Dubai in Friday, parties to the Montreal protocol agreed to launch new negotiations on phasing out some of these potentially harmful alternatives.
Higher qat prices might cause a switch to more harmful alternatives.But regulating the trade in qat, like alcohol and tobacco, is another matter.
George Monbiot argues of nuclear energy that the absence of less harmful alternatives has "converted me to the cause" (Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power, 21 March).
Even Britain's official advisory panel on drugs opposed the government's move this week to criminalise khat, a mild and little-known stimulant whose users may now turn to more harmful alternatives (see article).In this section Creative destruction The third arrow Europe's unlikely star FATCA's flaws A half-smoked joint ReprintsSo reform is needed, but is decriminalisation the right approach?
A variety of policy options are available to mandate or provide economic incentives to switch to these less harmful alternatives.
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