[Contribution] Why South Korea is losing the struggle against smoking
- Source
- The Korea Herald - Business
- Source link
- https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10835950
- Published
- 2026-08-10 11:46:23
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-11 14:29:06
- Category
- Procurement & Supply Chain News
- Geography
- South Korea
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
By Marewa Glover Every year, smoking kills more than 68,000 South Koreans. Yet instead of making it easier for people to move away from cigarettes, South Korean policy continues to make that transition harder. It taxes some safer nicotine products more heavily than cigarettes, tells people who smoke that all nicotine products are equally harmful and regulates lower-risk alternatives as though they were combustible tobacco. The result is predictable: progress against smoking has stalled. A new re
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