Consumer body questions health minister's claims on vape ban

AVI’s point-by-point rebuttal of Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan’s editorial defending the national ENDS ban: disputes his tobacco-decline statistics against US/UK comparators, challenges the teen-uptake “gateway” claim by citing a 60,000-teen UK study, and separates the US vaping-related lung-injury (EVALI) deaths — caused by illicit cannabis-oil vapes — from legal nicotine vaping. Quotes Samrat Chowdhery, Jagannath Sarangapani and Dhaval Gogate.