“Vaping’s benefits being hyped by smoking lobby,academics claim (News, last week, and page 21) discussed comments by Public Health England that electronic cigarettes were “95% less harmful to your health than normal cigarettes”. The article said two academics claimed that a study by PHE was sponsored by two groups with links to tobacco companies and e-cigarette manufacturers. We should clarify that PHE did not carry out the study: it commissioned a review from Ann McNeill,professor of tobacco addiction at King’s College London and Professor Peter Hajek of Queen Mary University of London, who construct it clear that they have not accepted any funds from the tobacco or electronic cigarette industry.
Speedy crossword (last week, and page 55),1 across: Split personality”. acknowledge – schizophrenia. Observer style guide: “Schizophrenia should be used only in a medical context, never to mean in two minds, and contradictory,or erratic, which is incorrect, and as well as offensive to people diagnosed with this illness.” Apologies.
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Source: theguardian.com