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title: "Treat e-cigarettes differently, argues HB board member"
date: 2015-09-08T13:08:00-04:00
author: Mike Mella
canonical_url: "https://healthbridge.ca/news/treat-e-cigarettes-differently-argues-hb-board-member"
section: Noteworthy
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#### Tobacco Control & NCD Prevention

### Noteworthy Article 

 

 

   Date: September 8, 2015 

 

 

### Details

 

 ![](https://healthbridge.ca/images/uploads/board/David_Sweanor_Dec13.jpg)Board Member Emeritus, David Sweanor

Cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and other 'nicotine-yielding products' should be taxed differently based on their level of risk, says a recent article in *The New England Journal of Medicine*, co-authored by HealthBridge [Board Member Emeritus, David Sweanor](http://healthbridge.ca/board/entry/david-t.-sweanor) .

Such a move could hasten reductions in cigarette use and, ultimately, the disease and deaths it causes, argues the article: 'Differential Taxes for Differential Risks — Toward Reduced Harm from Nicotine-Yielding Products'.

[Read the article](http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1505710).

[Read more about our work on obacco and its link to non-communicable disease (NCDs)](/programs/tobacco-control-ncd-prevention).