Novel products: The unconvinced smokers and vulnerable youth

 The use of novel tobacco and nicotine products should only be recommended to heavy smokers who tried everything else and still smoke traditional cigarettes, Professor Andrzej Fal told EURACTIV.com in an interview.

“If you are a smoker and nothing has convinced you yet to quit […], then harm reduction products should be the ultima ratio [last resort]”, Dr Fal said.

The market of novel tobacco and nicotine products – such as electronic cigarettes, heated tobacco and nicotine pouches – has skyrocketed in the last years with an increasing number of consumers switching. (...)