AUSTRALIA
Philip Morris International (PMI) and British American Tobacco (BAT) are seeking to overturn Australia’s vaping ban with submissions to an Australian parliamentary inquiry that is considering whether e-cigarettes should be legalized.
Marian Salzman, PMI’s senior vice-president of global communications, said, “Right now, smokers don’t have the ability to choose non-burn [vaping] products, which we know are 90-95% better. Others are making a decision about your health if you are a smoker.”
Salzman also said that government bans on e-cigarettes are “morally reprehensible” because they removed a tool smokers could use to successfully quit the traditional cigarettes habit.