August 2018: South Africa
Letter
David Abrams, Ray Niaura, David Sweanor and I have submitted comments on the draft tobacco and vaping legislation under discussion in South Africa. We argue that the legislation is ‘disproportionate’ towards tobacco harm reduction and should be amended to be ‘risk-proportionate’.
Our full 20-page submission in PDF form is here.
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