Author: Asanda Gcoyi

As the controversy continues raging around South Africa’s blanket tobacco ban, with British American Tobacco SA’s  (BATSA) court challenge postponed to August, it’s time for the government to admit that misinformation – even from scientists themselves – has unfairly biased them towards the safer alternative that is vaping. It’s so widespread, it even has a name, as Dr Marewa Glover, a New Zealand public health academic specialising in smoking cessation and who has published more than 100 scientific articles in relation to the benefits of e-cigarettes and vaping, will confirm. She told the recent International Global Forum on Nicotine (GFN)…