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OTRU - E-Cigarette Social Sources: Theory, Evidence and Regulatory Policy
There are no federal policies currently in place aimed at reducing social sources of e-cigarettes. A recent Health Canada report acknowledges that most young people in Canada are accessing vaping products socially through friends and family and not making purchases themselves. While it is well known that youth are accessing e-cigarettes via social sources, interventions to address this problem are under-developed. Findings from conventional tobacco show that it is very likely that raising the minimum age and increasing compliance and enforcement measures are likely to be effective in reducing the overall social supply of e-cigarettes.
Illegal Experimental Tobacco Marketplace II: effects of vaping product bans - findings from the 2020 International Tobacco Control Project
Vaping restrictions may shift users’ preference to the illegal marketplace in a regulatory environment. Evidence of the IETM generalisability in a geographically dispersed sample enhances its utility in tobacco regulatory science.
Efficacy and Safety of E-Cigarette Use for Smoking Cessation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Among individuals attempting to quit smoking, nicotine e-cigarettes are more efficacious than conventional nicotine replacement or behavioral smoking cessation therapies, and may prove beneficial in reducing smoking-related health risks.
Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
Evidence suggesting nicotine EC can aid in smoking cessation is consistent across several comparisons. There is now high‐certainty evidence that EC with nicotine increases quit rates at six months or longer compared to NRT, and there remains moderate‐certainty evidence that EC with nicotine increases quit rates at six months or longer compared to non‐nicotine EC.
Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation
There is high-certainty evidence that ECs with nicotine increase quit rates compared to NRT and moderate-certainty evidence that they increase quit rates compared to ECs without nicotine.
National Trends in Sales and Price for Commercial Tobacco and Nicotine Products, 2018-2022
Faced with many products, consumers may be influenced by price differences to purchase products with varying levels of harm. In particular, the cheapness of cigars, which are combustible tobacco products with many of the same health risks as cigarettes,6 may perpetuate use. Policies that impact price (ie, taxation and minimum pack size) can discourage use of the most dangerous products and should be considered.
Exploring the opinions and potential impact of unflavoured e-liquid on smoking cessation among people who smoke and smoking relapse among people who previously smoked and now use e-cigarettes: findings from a UK-based mixed methods study
The findings highlight that people who smoke and vape could be impacted by flavour restrictions in a range of ways, some of which could have a potential adverse impact on harm reduction efforts in the UK (e.g., by making smoking more appealing than vaping).
The Effect of E-Cigarette Flavor Bans on Tobacco Use
Using data from the State and National Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, we find that the adoption of an ENDS flavor restriction reduces frequent and everyday youth ENDS use by 1.2 to 2.5 percentage points. However, we also detect evidence of an unintended effect of ENDS flavor restrictions that is especially clear among 18-20-year-olds: inducing substitution to combustible cigarette smoking.
Comprehensive E-Cigarette Flavor Bans and Tobacco Use Among Youth and Adults
In this study, we examine the effects of these comprehensive bans on e-cigarette use and potential spillovers into other tobacco use by youth, young adults, and adults. We find evidence that young adults decrease their use of the banned flavored e-cigarettes as well as their overall e-cigarette use, by about two percentage points, while increasing cigarette use.
Original quantitative research – A machine learning approach to predict e-cigarette use and dependence among Ontario youth
The top 10 correlates of daily vaping included use of caffeine, cannabis and tobacco, source and type of e-cigarette and absence in last 20 school days. Those of ever-vaping included school size, and use of alcohol, cannabis and tobacco.
