DC legislators amended the bill to say that the law does not give city police the authority to act on their own to enforce the tobacco ban, according to the Washington Post
I used PM1 Smoke CADR figures exclusively, sourced from independent laboratory testing in standardized 728 cubic foot rooms with laser particle sensors
Poorly formulated and designed research, over-cooked announcements of research results, over-hyped university press releases and an uncritical media with an appetite for bad news stories all create a perfect storm of confusion among the general public, smokers and users of safer nicotine products (SNP) as to the advisability of switching away from smoking to SNP
To encourage harm reduction (consumers switching from more harmful cigarettes to less harmful vapor products), the products should be taxed relative to harm
But it's a rather awkward resemblance for Coca-Cola, especially given the recent context of countries such as the UK introducing a so-called 'sugar tax' to sugary drinks
