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BMJ: New evidence supports a liberal approach to e-cigarette regulation

British Medical Journal

The BMJ has today published an editorial about e-cigarettes as an aid for giving up smoking. Please find the article here, and an extract below.

“The noticeable increase in e-cigarette use during 2010-15 in the United States was associated with a considerable and unprecedented increase in quit attempts, but most importantly in population quit rates, from 4.5% to 5.6%. This increase of just over one percentage point is higher than those for all other survey years since 2000 in which the surveys, using the same methods and measures, have been conducted.

“But could other tobacco control interventions operating at the same time have been the key triggers to the observed step change? The authors account in meticulous detail for such alternative explanations for the associations. They mount a convincing case for why the two most likely candidates—a large federal tobacco tax increase in 2009 and a nationwide mass media campaign—could not be standalone reasons for the change in cessation rates.”

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