Should electronic cigarettes be as freely available as tobacco cigarettes? No
Abstract
The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency has decided to license electronic cigarettes as medicines from 2016. Simon Chapman agrees with regulation, seeing e-cigarettes as another way for big tobacco to try to make nicotine addiction socially acceptable again, but Jean-François Etter (doi:10.1136/bmj.f3845) says restrictions will result in more harm to smokers
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- Authors
- Chapman, S.
- Affiliations
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Chapman, S.
- ORCID
- Chapman, S.
- Venue
- BMJ
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2013-06-14
- Volume
- 346
- Issue
- jun14 1
- Pages
- f3840-f3840
- ISSN
- 1756-1833 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2028916969
- Cited by
- 75
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 19 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 9.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BMJ (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Healthcare Regulation
- Keywords
- electronic cigarettes, tobacco regulation, nicotine dependence, tobacco industry, smoking cessation, harm reduction, tobacco control
- MeSH terms
- Commerce, Electronics, Humans, Legislation, Drug, Public Opinion, Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Use Cessation Devices, Tobacco Products
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