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Ryan Bridge: Who do we believe on vaping?
There's a big puffy cloud of smoke hanging over the vaping versus cigarettes debate this week.
It's all kicked off because the Government's handing out free vapes to smokers to stop them getting what we know could be a death sentence.
They've done a deal to buy a bunch of them for $500,000.
Between last January and July, 3000 smokers were given vaping kits and nearly half of them stopped smoking. Which, ordinarily, you would think would be a good news story.
Not so for Kelly Burrowes, Auckland University Vaping Researcher. She said on Newstalk ZB that it wasn't.
So I spoke yesterday to Robert…
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