[120] In 2015, Ethiopia, Moldova, and Chile have passed legislation banning flavored tobacco products
*** The writer is a senior lecturer in international law at the School of Law at Airlangga University, Surabaya
It should be emphasized, as the Association of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada argues, that actually the performance of e-cigs in a clinical setting is not outstanding anyway: in fact, only 1 in 10 smokers succeeds in quitting, whereas there are smoking cessation treatments approved by the Italian Medicines Agency or combinations of pharmacological treatments that have much higher efficacy, having higher success rates 6 months-1 year after treatment [7]
Among those aged 1824 years, any tobacco use decreased at a statistically significant APC rate of -7.6% (95% CI: -15.2 -1.9) between 2015 and 2018, but stabilized from 2018 to 2023 with an APC of 0.6% (95% CI: -2.79.4)