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Big Story No smoke without fire: Vaping controversy

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Vaping is going through a bad patch. Illegal imports, selling to under-age customers and the failure of certain products to meet UK regulations have all featured prominently in media coverage in recent months. News stories have focused more on the industry’s problems than on its single most obvious virtue: that vaping is much healthier than …

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