Governments which recognise vaping’s potential to lower smoking rates and save lives should make that case strongly at COP9.
E-cigarettes are a great innovation for public health, but they are threatened by bad EU regulation.
It wouldn’t be a “sin tax”, it would be a tax penalising people for stopping smoking. The Treasury’s greed would have outweighed its logic.
Despite public health campaigners coming round to the benefits of e-cigarettes, mixed-messaging is still discouraging people from switching.