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Twisp berates SA media─── 06:21 Mon, 01 Dec 2014
Cape Town - Electronic cigarette company Twisp has slammed the South African media over recent apparently negative reporting about e-cigarettes.
Describing the reports as "the feral media vs e-cigarettes," Twisp technical director Philip Bartholomew said the situation meant "there are lives at stake". He said that if the findings of a different research project was applied in the country "48,000 South Africans could be saved each year," through switching to e-cigarettes.
He said the recent reports dealt with a Japanese study that "claimed" there were 10 times more cancer-causing agents in e-cigarettes compared to regular tobacco.
"The reportage did not however identify that this was a single (unpublished) extreme case."
Sapa
