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

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

Seven international tobacco control experts urged government regulators to avoid heavy-handed condemnation of e-cigarette use. 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 use of e-cigarettes.

 

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