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Clancy, L and Babineau, Kate (2016) E-cigarettes: effective cessation tools or public health threat? QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 109, (2), pp. 79-81. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcv223.

External website: http://qjmed.oxfordjournals.org/content/109/2/79

In a short time, electronic cigarettes have become a multi-billion dollar industry. Since their introduction to the market, prevalence of ever-use among smokers in the USA appears to have increased from ∼2% in 2010 to >30% in 2012, and the rate of increase appears to be similar in the United Kingdom, Ireland and other Western countries according to a special Eurobarometer survey in 2014.1 The e-cigarette market is estimated to be worth over $3 billion. However, there is no consensus on the role of e-cigarettes and their contribution to the provision of smoking cessation (SC) services, nor to global tobacco control.


Item Type
Article
Publication Type
Irish-related, International, Open Access, Article
Drug Type
Tobacco / Nicotine
Intervention Type
Drug therapy, Treatment method
Date
2016
Identification #
https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hcv223
Page Range
pp. 79-81
Publisher
Oxford Academic
Volume
109
Number
2
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