But Professor Gerry Stimson, director of Knowledge-Action-Change, a public health consultancy, accused the WHO of "exaggerating the risks of ecigarettes while downplaying the huge potential of these non-combustible, low-risk nicotine products to end the epidemic of tobacco-related disease".
"That period of not-responsible government degraded the systems, public health and otherwise in Guinea, and I think did have a role in leaving the country open to this sort of epidemic, " he said.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
Crimes are epidemic.
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342 - 1400) A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.