E-Cigarettes and Global Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2019) | Viewed by 10764
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the exception of the arms industry, there is probably no other area of commercial activity that is associated with more death and morbidity than the production and sale of tobacco in smokable form. Killing one in two of all users it is hard to see how this product found a market at all let alone that it became a major global commodity. Whilst levels of smoking in many developed countries have reduced markedly over the last two decades global demographic changes have meant that in many areas the number of smokers has increased, whilst in others it has remained unchanged. Stopping smoking is unquestionably the most effective means of reducing smoking related health harm. However, exhorting people to stop smoking, and informing them of the risks they face, are is not enough on their own to tackle the global smoking epidemic. Smoking itself is driven by a multitude of factors: industry marketing and promotion, individual choice, addiction, and by the simple fact that there are few drug delivery systems that are as effective in eliciting a psychoactive effect as smoking.
Electronic nicotine delivery systems offer those smokers who cannot quit, and those who wish to continue to consume nicotine, an option that is substantially less harmful than smoking combustible tobacco products. These devices have become the “go to” means by which millions of smokers are seeking to quit. Whilst it is not possible to say with certainty that electronic nicotine delivery systems have reduced smoking prevalence, nevertheless smoking prevalence has reduced in many of the areas where these devices are readily available and widely used.
Electronic nicotine delivery systems are available to differing degrees in different areas. Within many of the areas where smoking prevalence is at its greatest the alternatives to combustible tobacco products are hardly available at all. That lack of availability can be traced to government policies, to the fact that the profits from the sale of these products is less in poor countries than in rich countries, to technological limitations in the products themselves, and to the public perception of vaping.
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is announcing today a Special Issue focused on electronic cigarettes and global public health. The invitation is to scholars, researchers, policy makers and those implementing policy to consider how and how quickly the benefits of electronic nicotine delivery systems can be turned to maximum global benefit.
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Keywords
- Health inequalities
- Ethics
- Policy
- Education
- Regulation
- Public Understanding
- Innovation
- Role of Industry
- Barriers to access
- Barriers to use
- Sustainability
- Cost
- Peer Support/Peer Action
