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Are cigarette alternatives the lesser evil?

This month the government has had to change course halfway through its current cancer control strategy, after evidence showed it is not working.

Alarmed by increasing cancer cases, 28,000 in 2011, the government had then launched the first five-year national cancer strategy with several key targets.

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