Five of the companies that received warning letters made vapes decorated with cartoon characters, such as Minions, or were shaped like toys, including Nintendo Game Boys or walkie-talkies
In France, according to a survey[4] from Inserm and Inca[5], since the introduction of plain packaging in 2017, fewer young people have experimented with tobacco: 1 in 5 young people aged 12 to 17 (20.8%) experimented with tobacco for the first time in 2017 compared to 1 in 4 (26.3%) in 2016
We focused on individuals with low SES and with SPD because they are, respectively, the largest subpopulation with significantly elevated smoking prevalence and a subpopulation with very high smoking prevalence [9,10,11, 16,17,18, 42]
Dr Narayana Subramaniam is a head and neck surgical oncologist at Sri Shankara Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Bengaluru