Big tobacco firms shifting to new nicotine products, including Philip Morris International (PMI) and British American Tobacco (BAT), have the most to lose if tobacco alternatives face the same rules as cigarettes, say investors and analysts.
The World Health Organization today urged governments to apply tobacco-style controls to vapes, suggesting they are getting new users hooked on nicotine.
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NAM Implications:
- Although the U.N. agency has no authority over national nicotine regulations and only provides guidance…
- …in practice the WHO recent moves in making unilateral changes in global health regulation…
- …could cause them to take a similar stance on nicotine control…
- Despite the fact that local governments have very different views on how to approach the new nicotine products.
- i.e. we are nowhere near the end of the beginning on this issue…
