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Reported patterns of vaping to support long-term abstinence from smoking: a cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of vapers
Knowledge of how people have successfully maintained tobacco-smoking abstinence using vaping could help other tobacco smokers wishing to quit tobacco smoking through vaping.
The Impact of New Jersey’s 2020 E-cigarette Flavor Ban on E-cigarette, Cigarette, and Cigar Sales in New Jersey
Flavored e-cigarette sales were declining prior to the ban but the pace of the decline accelerated following federal and state restrictions on flavored e-cigarette sales, then slowed by the second half of 2020, with a brief period of increased cigarette and cigar sales immediately following the ban. Research on long-term policy effects is needed.
Do respiratory physicians not care about people who smoke?
In this opinion article we discuss clinicians’ views of vaping and consider the implications that harm misperceptions may have for public health. To promote good health, reduce harm and prevent early death, we should support vaping as a means of smoking cessation for adults as an urgent public health priority. In our concern for children, let us not forget the health of adults.
Harm perceptions across vaping product features: An on-linecross-sectional survey of adults who smoke and/or vape in theUnited Kingdom
Vaping perceptions among adults who continue to smoke are the most important to address, because inaccurate perceptions could deter switching to vaping and also increase the risk of relapse once quit. Findings highlight the need for evidence-based interventions that educate adults who smoke regarding vaping and nicotine. The most important messages remain that using regulated, legal e-cigarettes is substantially less harmful than smoking, and that it is not the nicotine that kills people who smoke.
Australia and New Zealand: A Natural Experiment in Vaping Policy
This analysis supports New Zealand’s harm reduction-oriented, consumer-based approach to vaping. The most striking benefit has been the accelerated decline in smoking rates, with predictable improvements to public health to follow. While New Zealand is now on track to achieve its smoke-free target in 2025, modeling suggests that Australia will miss its own smoke-free goal by a wide margin.
E-cigarettes and harm reduction - executive summary
This report looks again at the part e-cigarettes can play in preventing death, disability and inequalities from tobacco use. It examines the role of nicotine and the spectrum of nicotine-containing products, trends in tobacco use and vaping, the effectiveness of e-cigarettes to treat tobacco addiction, and the differences in health effects of vaping in people who smoke, vape or do neither. For those who currently smoke, the report reviews how e-cigarettes can be used to support more people to make quit attempts while discouraging young people and never-smokers from taking up e-cigarette use. The role of the tobacco industry in encouraging ‘new entrants’ (a term used by the industry to describe never-smokers) to the nicotine market while continuing to sell lethal tobacco products is also examined. Finally, the report considers the ethical dilemmas presented by e-cigarettes, such as managing risk messaging of uncertain long-term safety data, use in never-smokers, balancing the regulatory environment, industry interference, and the environmental impact.
No Smoke Less Harm - 2024
A new landmark report - ‘No Smoke, Less Harm’ - proves that nicotine use does NOT lead to tobacco-related disease. The study shows that Sweden has dramatically lower rates of tobacco-related deaths and health issues than other European nations - despite similar levels of nicotine intake. In Sweden, one in four adults use nicotine daily, the same as across Europe. However, the Scandinavian country reports a massive 41 per cent lower incidence of lung cancer and fewer than HALF the tobacco-related deaths of 24 out of 26 of its European peers. This stark contrast is attributed to the widespread adoption of smoke-free nicotine products such as snus, nicotine pouches and vapes.
THE EFFECTS OF E-CIGARETTE TAXES ON E-CIGARETTE PRICES AND TOBACCO PRODUCT SALES: EVIDENCE FROM RETAIL PANEL DATA
In this paper, we examine the effects of e-cigarette taxes on e-cigarette prices, e-cigarette sales, and other tobacco product sales. We find that e-cigarette taxes are almost fully shifted to consumer prices. This pattern of results suggests that policymakers almost fully control e-cigarette retail prices through the setting of tax policy. Our paper finds evidence that e-cigarettes and cigarettes are economic substitutes, particularly with respect to e-cigarette taxes increasing cigarette sales. This finding is concerning from a public health perspective given that e-cigarettes are less dangerous products. One concept endorsed by a number of leading national experts is to tax e-cigarettes proportionate to their risk relative to cigarettes as a way to reduce public health harm (which is related to but different from overall social welfare).
The Compassion Club: A New Proposal for Transformation of Tobacco Retail
Specialty Vape shops One major assumption in the current tobacco industry is the distribution of tobacco products through a system of commercial for-profit retail. However, other models of distribution that do not rely on this mechanism exist. There has been little discussion about the possibility that this promising model could be applied to help transform the tobacco industry. Many independent vape stores already demonstrate aspects of the compassion club model that could be used to support a transition.
E-cigarette addiction and harm perception: Does initiation flavor choice matter?
Traditionally flavored e-cigarette initiation produces similar risk for addiction and harm perceptions as non-traditionally flavored initiation. These findings suggest that banning non-traditional flavors alone may be ineffective in curbing e-cigarette addiction and harm perception.
