Sales of cigarettes in South Korea rose 3.8 percent on-year in the first half of this year. Meanwhile, sales of heat-not-burn tobacco products fell 6.6 percent to 180 million in the first half. Sales of vaporizer-based liquid electronic cigarettes also plunged 80.3 percent to 1.2 million pods in the first half, as the government strongly advised people not to use liquid e-cigarettes, warning that such vaping products could cause serious lung illness or death.”
BILL TARLING — The Gov’t had been advising against users switching to vaping by using the deceptive misinformation which was being spewed out by the U.S. CDC who were aware almost immediately that the EVALI health issues were due to illegal products, yet they still deceived the public into believing E-liquid Vapor Product e-cigs were also to blame even though they weren’t the cause.
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