South Africa’s health department has issued statements indicating its intention to adopt a no-compromise position on vaping and related products, expressing it’s intention to regulate vaping accordingly. However, a meeting on Wednesday, provided South Africans a long-overdue platform to propose alternate positions on what is, globally, an advanced conversation.

Dr Delon Human, co-founder of the Africa Harm Reduction Alliance (AHRA) and president of Health Diplomats, Clive Bates of Counterfactual and former director of Action on Smoking and Health UK, Dr Kgosi Letlape, president of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPSCA) and Associate Professor Richard van Zyl-Smit, head of the Lung Research Unit at the University of Cape Town Lung Institute and a consultant pulmonologist at Groote Schuur Hospital, contributed a variety of views.

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