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*Reasons for e-cigarette use included “to help me quit smoking cigarettes”, “to help me reduce the number of cigarettes I smoke”, and “so that I can e-smoke in places where cigarette smoking is not allowed." | *Reasons for e-cigarette use included “to help me quit smoking cigarettes”, “to help me reduce the number of cigarettes I smoke”, and “so that I can e-smoke in places where cigarette smoking is not allowed." | ||
*The mean frequency of e-cigarette use was higher among those who formerly smoked cigarettes than among those who currently smoked (t = 6.45, p < 0.001) and patients who currently smoked had less than half the odds of daily e-cigarette use compared to those who formerly smoked (OR = 0.39, p < 0.001). | *The mean frequency of e-cigarette use was higher among those who formerly smoked cigarettes than among those who currently smoked (t = 6.45, p < 0.001) and patients who currently smoked had less than half the odds of daily e-cigarette use compared to those who formerly smoked (OR = 0.39, p < 0.001). | ||
===2020: [https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article-abstract/23/4/654/5895499 A magic bullet? The potential impact of e-cigarettes on the toll of cigarette smoking]=== | |||
*The combination of assumptions produces 360 possible scenarios. 357 (99%) yield positive estimates of life-years saved (LYS) due to vaping by 2100, from 143,000 to 65 million. | |||
*The impact of vaping is greatest when it most helps smokers who otherwise have the greatest difficulty quitting smoking. | |||
*Vaping is highly likely to reduce smoking-produced mortality. Still, vaping is not “the” answer to the public health crisis created by smoking. Rather, it may well be a tool to add to the armamentarium of effective tobacco control measures. | |||
*Harm reduction can, and many would say should, be a part of the complex formula that will eventually bring about the demise of smoking. | |||
*[https://sci-hub.se/10.1093/ntr/ntaa160 PDF Version] | |||
*Citation: Mendez, D., & Warner, K. E. (2020). A magic bullet? The potential impact of e-cigarettes on the toll of cigarette smoking. Nicotine & Tobacco Research. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntaa160 | |||
*Acknowledgement: Research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) (Award Number U54CA229974). | |||
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