Evidence, alarm, and the debate over e-cigarettes

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Published: 2019

Resource Notes:

Quote: “The most conservative estimates suggest that were vaping nicotine to replace most smoking over the next 10 years, 1.6 million premature deaths would be avoided and 20.8 million quality adjusted years of life would be saved in the United States alone. The greatest gains would be among younger cohorts (15). Across the globe, more than 8 million smokers will die prematurely from smoking cigarettes, not from nicotine itself, in 2019 alone. The potential benefit of appropriately regulated, innovative, noncombusted nicotine modes of delivery could have a tremendous impact globally.”

Controversies:

None to date.

Publishing Source:

Science Magazine ( American Association for the Advancement of Science)

Authors:

Amy Fairchild, Cheryl Healton, James Curran, David Abrams, Ronald Bayer

Citations:

Amy Fairchild, Cheryl Healton, James Curran, David Abrams, Ronald Bayer. Evidence, alarm, and the debate over e-cigarettes. Science 366 (6471), 1318-1320. DOI: 10.1126/science.aba0032