This report describes features of e-cigarette product use by patients in Illinois and Wisconsin.

Introduction US tobacco control policies to reduce cigarette use have been effective, but their impact has been relatively slow. This study considers a strategy of switching cigarette smokers to e-cigarette use (‘vaping’) in the USA to accelerate tobacco control progress. Methods A Status Quo Scenario, developed to project smoking rates and health outcomes in the absence of vaping, is compared with Substitution models, whereby cigarette use is largely replaced by vaping over a 10-year period. We test an Optimistic and a Pessimistic Scenario, differing in terms of the relative harms of e-ci...

Science and Technology Committee publishe e-cigarettes report

Fewer U.S. middle and high school students are using tobacco products – but too many still do, according to a new survey published by the CDC and the FDA Center for Tobacco Products.

Update 30 April 2018 - JUUL: hold the moral panic Introducing a modern moral panic Over the weekend in an aside in my long blog about the sophistry of anti-vaping activists, I mentioned the unfolding moral panic about vaping and, especially, Juul e-cigarettes among teens (see the quote from the blog below for background). I want…

E-cigarettes are the most popular method of quitting smoking in England and most are purchased in specialist vape shops. This qualitative study explores how the vape shop environment is experienced by quitters to support smoking abstinence. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted to elicit experiences of e-cigarette use, including experiences of vape shops, in 40 people who had used e-cigarettes in a quit attempt. Observations of six shops in a range of locations were also undertaken. Interview and observation data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis and triangulat...

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Back in 2015, the bold conclusions of our previous e-cigarette (EC) report were controversial in providing qualified support for the use of ECs but have since contributed to a shift in internati

Public Health England is confirming its 2015 assessment that e-cigarettes are far safer than smoking. The government agency was the first respected public health organization to urge cigarette smokers to switch to vaping -- and to suggest that doctors recommend e-cigs to smoking patients. The new report assesses the evidence since the 2015 publication.

Here we go again. Another federally funded study from the University of California, San Francisco, claims that “Nonsmoking adolesc...

Another university research study has determined that electronic cigarettes and vaporizers are emerging as the top product preference for smokers trying to kick their habit.

Surveys of e-cigarette users (vapers) overwhelmingly demonstrate that almost all of them (even up to 99 percent) are smokers or former smokers. After sur...

New evidence supports a liberal approach to e-cigarette regulation Evidence for the effectiveness of e-cigarettes as smoking cessation aids for individual smokers, still limited to just two randomised…

Whilst e-cigarettes have been characterised by Public Health England as being around 95% less harmful than combustible tobacco products, only a minority of current smokers (around 16% within the UK) a…

23 July 2009 CHILDREN WITH PARENTS WHO SMOKE ARE MORE LIKELY TO PICK UP SMOKING A study by researchers at Dartmouth College revealed that children with parents who smoked were 4 times more likely to p…

Smoking by either parent helps promote genetic deletions in children that are associated with the development and progression of the most common type of childhood cancer, according to research headed …

By Kathryn DoyleNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Parents should quit smoking while their children are young to help prevent them from picking up the habit

September 28, 2005 Twelve-year-olds whose parents smoked were more than two times as likely to begin smoking cigarettes on a daily basis between the ages of 13 and 21 than were children whose parents …

The more a parent smokes, the more their teenage son or daughter will also smoke. Teenagers are much more likely to smoke and be dependent on nicotine if a parent is dependent on nicotine, especially …

Data and Statistics Tables data on trends in current cigarette smoking.

Defying its own data, the CDC continues to obscure the enormous harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.

Can the impending near-complete destruction of the U.S. vaping market be averted? A group of public health experts believes it can - though time is running out. Led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller…

This report from CDC's MMWR details tobacco use among middle and high school students in the United States during 2011–2106.

First of a two-part essay describing the fundamental inability of existing tobacco research methods to unravel the truth behind the "efficacy" of vape tech.

Fears that �vaping� is a gateway to tobacco smoking are unfounded, shows a comprehensive review of available evidence on the harms and benefits of electronic or e-cigarettes and vapour devices, re...

Raising the vaping age actually leads to an increase in teen smoking, according to a new study from ...

Words and photos by Erin Hedrick “Addictions are not a fad.” “I am not afraid of any government regu...

We all agree that e-cigarettes are significantly less harmful than smoking. One in 2 lifelong smoker...