87 Since 2015, excise in relation to retail price has risen in real terms by about 1 percent per year, according to calculations made by the Economics of Tobacco Control Project at the University of Cape Town, as supplied to the author
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The industry has also funded their own science to discredit existing independent research on their products, and pays the media to publish sponsored articles theyve written, such as this one which appeared on TimesLIVE in November 2024, arguing there is sufficient evidence that electronic tobacco products are safe and effective harm-reduction tools, or this one published by News24 in January, boosting British American Tobacco-sponsored studies that underplay the potential harm of the chemical contained in electronic products, says Lekan Ayo-Yusuf, public health expert from the University of Pretoria and a member of the WHOs study group on tobacco product regulation
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"Encouraging smokers who are not ready to quit to try meds anyway is a new idea with increasing data," she points out
