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New scientific review of e-cigarettes by Peter Hajek, JF Etter, Neal Benowitz, Tom Eissenberg and Hayden McRobbie concludes:
"Regulating EC as strictly as cigarettes, or even more strictly as some regulators propose, is not warranted on current evidence. Health professionals may consider advising smokers unable or unwilling to quit through other routes to switch to EC as a safer alternative to smoking and a possible pathway to complete cessation of nicotine use."
Electronic cigarettes: review of use, content, safety, effects onsmokers and potential for harm and benefitElectronic cigarettes: review of use, content, safety, effects on smokers and potential for harm and benefit - Hajek - 2014 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library
Some news articles on the new study.
E-cig benefits outweigh their harms, new research says
Study: E-Cigarettes Are More Beneficial Than Harmful - TIME
Healthcare professionals may recommend smokers use e-cigs instead of cigarettes
E-cigarettes are 'less harmful than ordinary cigarettes' | Mail Online
E-cigarettes ‘less harmful’ than cigarettes (but prohibitionist McKee denies scientific evidence)
BBC News - E-cigarettes 'less harmful' than cigarettes
Benefits of E-cigarettes outweigh harms, study finds (but Big Pharma shill Norm Edelman keeps demonizing them, fails to disclose ALA’s financial conflicts of interest)
Benefits of E-Cigarettes May Outweigh Harms, Study Finds
"Regulating EC as strictly as cigarettes, or even more strictly as some regulators propose, is not warranted on current evidence. Health professionals may consider advising smokers unable or unwilling to quit through other routes to switch to EC as a safer alternative to smoking and a possible pathway to complete cessation of nicotine use."
Electronic cigarettes: review of use, content, safety, effects onsmokers and potential for harm and benefitElectronic cigarettes: review of use, content, safety, effects on smokers and potential for harm and benefit - Hajek - 2014 - Addiction - Wiley Online Library
Some news articles on the new study.
E-cig benefits outweigh their harms, new research says
Study: E-Cigarettes Are More Beneficial Than Harmful - TIME
Healthcare professionals may recommend smokers use e-cigs instead of cigarettes
E-cigarettes are 'less harmful than ordinary cigarettes' | Mail Online
E-cigarettes ‘less harmful’ than cigarettes (but prohibitionist McKee denies scientific evidence)
BBC News - E-cigarettes 'less harmful' than cigarettes
Benefits of E-cigarettes outweigh harms, study finds (but Big Pharma shill Norm Edelman keeps demonizing them, fails to disclose ALA’s financial conflicts of interest)
Benefits of E-Cigarettes May Outweigh Harms, Study Finds
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