Doctors and public health experts say making NRTs tougher to get could actually stop people from quitting smoking, something that is already linked to over 1.35 million tobacco-related deaths a year in India.
As pulmonologist Dr. Priyanka Chaudhary Bindroo puts it, .".. Restricting a WHO-approved cessation aid without contemporary evidence is a step backward. ", and restricting these WHO-approved aids could just make the public health situation worse for everyone trying to kick the habit.