Roughly one-third of these students (31%) said they used an e-cigarette because of availability of flavors such as mint, candy, fruit, or chocolate, while 17% said they used it because they perceived them to be less harmful than other forms of tobacco such as cigarettes. Less common reasons cited by middle and high schoolers for using e-cigarettes were because they are easier to get than other tobacco products, such as cigarettes (5%), they cost less than other tobacco products such as cigarettes (3%) and famous people on TV or in movies use them (2%).
In the UK the law is particularly harsh, with all public places legally being non-smoking places
Other electronic cigarettes such as Heated Tobacco Products (HTPs) use small sticks of tobacco that are heated at a temperature of 250C instead of being burnt at more than 800C in traditional, combustible cigarettes
Were not happy. While those were street purchases, more damaging to the travel retail industry will be cases where Australia-bound travellers buy their tobacco duty free and have it seized upon arrival (or have to pay the duty)
That meant government regulators viewed the tobacco substitutes more like drugs, subjecting them to a regulatory morass that the cigarette makers wanted to avoid
