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However, if some portion of smokers in the UK would not have been smokers in the counterfactual world without e-cigarettes, we should add the cost of increased smoking initiation to our value estimate
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A central question emerges: "How did regulatory frameworks evolve in a way that places limited weight on industry-supported scientific evidencedespite the scale of investment, technical rigor, and regulatory scrutiny behind itwhile routinely adapting to innovation in other complex and highly regulated sectors?" In most industries, substantial investment in research, engineering, and compliance is treated as a prerequisite for regulatory evolution