European Parliament adopts report recognizing role of vaping in helping smokers quit

      The European Parliament has adopted a special committee report that calls for stronger EU action on how to prevent cancer, with a provision on the role of e-cigarettes in helping smokers quit, making it the first chamber in the world to recognize tobacco harm reduction (THR) as a public health policy. The Parliament voted 652 to 15, with 27 abstentions on February 16, 2022, to ratify the December 2021 report by the Parliament's Special Committee on Beating Cancer (BECA) which introduced the THR perspective at the EU level. Such THR perspective in the report is reflected in the provision that the committee "considers electronic cigarettes could allo...

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