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Will Indonesia, a Key Tobacco Control Outlier, Keep Vaping Legal?

Authored op-ed by Samrat Chowdhery, for Filter · 22 November 2024

Not India-specific. Argues Indonesia’s decision to keep vaping legal and regulated, despite pressure from international tobacco-control advocacy, is a pragmatic harm-reduction response to the country’s high male smoking rate (65.5%, per the piece). Frames regulation — generating tax revenue and displacing illicit trade — as a better outcome than prohibition.