Archives: Seminars

The Transition to a Regulated Marketplace – an Applicant Perspective

With the PMTA process for ENDS now fully underway, the United States is on the verge of a transformed ENDS marketplace – one in which the products lawfully on the market are there because FDA has reviewed the scientific evidence and found their availability to be appropriate for the protection of public health (APPH), and… Read more »

What will a regulated marketplace look like in the United States?

Currently, the e-cigarette marketplace is only partially regulated.  But, FDA has received millions of applications from manufacturers who want to continue to market their e-cigarettes.  The U.S. Courts have required e-cigarette manufacturers to have a marketing authorization from FDA to continue marketing their products after September 9, 2021.  So, what is FDA doing to create… Read more »

E-cigarettes as an adaptive relapse prevention/recovery strategy: A missed opportunity?

Cigarette smoking is commonly viewed as a chronic, relapsing problem requiring long-term, repeated attention and multiple quit attempts. Yet the question of whether e-cigarettes may assist with cessation is often examined with a binary, single event, “all or nothing” lens. There may be advantages of using e-cigarettes within a relapse prevention/recovery of smoking abstinence framework… Read more »

Advocating Tobacco Harm Reduction in a Hostile Environment

The recent commentary ‘It is Time to Act with Integrity and End the Internecine Warfare Over E-Cigarettes’ addresses the need to achieve a lifesaving rapprochement between the tobacco control mainstream and the tobacco harm reduction community. Failure to end the warfare and reinstate fealty to good science risks millions of additional premature, smoking-related deaths that… Read more »

Stigma and tobacco harm reduction: what we can learn from other health behaviors

Stigmatizing smoking has been at the heart of tobacco control efforts for decades, which may drive more people to quit but at the same time potentially create new difficulties for smokers, including self-isolation, creation of social groups that might become ‘hardened’ to changing smoking behaviors, and perceptions by the user and society that complete abstinence… Read more »