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 »
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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 »
The US “signal-to-noise” ratio: given all the talk, what is happening in the US market post the PMTA deadline in September 2020?
The US market is now on the path to developing a regulated market as the FDA considers applications for approval to market millions of vape products, and starts to enforce against those not engaged in the process. There is so much talk about tighter enforcement, further flavour bans and a mountain of proposed legislation on a state… Read more »
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Panel Discussion and Q&A: What are the public health objectives – Preventing Nicotine use or ending smoking?
How do we end the toxic culture that has emerged?
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 »
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