WHO Slams E-cigarettes
A damning report from the World Health Organisation says adverts for electronic cigarettes should be banned and that laws should be introduced to prevent use inside.
A damning report from the World Health Organisation says adverts for electronic cigarettes should be banned and also laws introduced preventing people from using them indoors. But our guest, Charles Hamshaw Thomas from E-Lites, says the UN agency has got it all all wrong and needs to re-examine the science.
Lucy Williamson reports from Paris, where Francois Hollande has unveiled his newly reshuffled government, and Selin Girit examines the phenomenon that is Halal Tourism - holidays aimed at the Islamic market.
In New York, Dante Barry, deputy director of the Million Hoodie justice movement, discusses the US Justice Department's inquiry into the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in St Louis, Missouri.
Joining us from her home in Delhi, Jyoti Malhotra, senior writer at India Today, talks about tobacco and the smartphone killswitch.
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