UK Health Experts: Rename E-Cigarettes as ‘Nicotine Sticks’

Editor’s note: Reportedly, as e-cigarettes continue to grow in popularity among young people, the UK’s Royal Society for Public Health has suggested that no terms containing the word “smoking” should be used to describe e-cigarettes. Public health experts are calling for e-cigarettes to be renamed “nicotine sticks.”
According to China e-cigarette news, public health experts are calling for e-cigarettes to be renamed “nicotine sticks” in order to reverse their growing appeal among young people. The Guardian reported that the UK’s Royal Society for Public Health recommends that no terms containing the idea of “smoking” should be used to describe e-cigarettes, and that strong action is needed to stop young people from thinking e-cigarettes are “cool” or “magical,” and then going on to start smoking.