This strategic move reflects Altrias efforts to diversify its portfolio and capture a larger share of the rapidly growing e-vapor market
However, e-cigarettes are anything but safe
The World Health Organization estimates that roughly 3.8 billion people under fifty are infected globally, about two-thirds of that age group, the majority without any memorable outbreak ever showing up on their lip (WHO Herpes Simplex Virus fact sheet)
"Ireland set to become second country in the world to introduce plain pack cigarettes" Archived 22 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine "Tobacco Control Measure"
, MCI, dementia) are sporadic, this suggests that environmental factors like tobacco smoke might play an important, but undefined, role in their etiology (Ourry et al., 2024