ADA-friendly PDF: Caution advised in over-regulating e-cigarettes as tobacco alternative

Caution advised in over-regulating e-cigarettes as tobacco alternative

Seven international tobacco control experts urged government regulators to avoid heavy–handed condemnation of e-cigarette use, in a study published online April 25 in the journal Addiction.

The researchers noted that regulations of e–cigarettes are clearly needed, but that governments need to weigh growing evidence of the benefits e–cigarettes provide in helping some addicted cigarette smokers quit against the potential for harm if non–smokers take up vaping, the term commonly used to describe the use of e–cigarettes. 

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