Their energy implies that smoking will make you part of the crowd and that you can have a lifestyle thats better than your current condition
However, Dr James McCabe, clinical senior lecturer in psychosis studies at the Kings Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) said smoking should be taken seriously as a possible risk factor for psychosis and not dismissed as a consequence of the illness
The WHO Tobacco Free Initiative commissioned a report to help countries around the world develop policies to regulate e-cigarettes.19 ,20 This report, published in 2013, provided detailed policy suggestions for countries to regulate e-cigarettes including: banning the use of e-cigarettes anywhere that the use of conventional cigarettes is prohibited, banning the sale of e-cigarettes to anyone who cannot legally buy cigarettes or in any venues where sale of conventional cigarettes is prohibited, apply the same marketing restrictions to e-cigarettes as are applied to conventional cigarettes, ban the practice of cobranding e-cigarette products with cigarettes or marketing in a way that promotes dual use, banning the use of characterising flavours in e-cigarettes, particularly candy and alcohol flavours, banning companies from making claims regarding tobacco-use cessation (until such a time when e-cigarette manufacturers and companies provide sufficient evidence that ENDS products can be used effectively for cessation), and prohibiting e-cigarette companies from making health claims about their products unless approved by appropriate regulatory agencies, and calls for the development of standards for regulating product ingredients and functioning
While I didnt find great data for LMICs, the Global Tobacco Surveillance System (GTSS) has limited data from some countries on self-reported plans to quit (maps below, sourced from here)
