Historique
Article de Périodique
Nicorette reborn? E-cigarettes in light of the history of nicotine replacement technology (2015)
Auteur(s) :
ELAM, M. J.
Année
2015
Page(s) :
536-542
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Domaine :
Tabac / Tobacco / e-cigarette
Thésaurus mots-clés
NICOTINE
;
TECHNOLOGIE
;
E-CIGARETTE
;
SUBSTITUTS NICOTINIQUES
;
HISTOIRE
;
TABAC
Thésaurus géographique
SUEDE
Résumé :
Background: E-cigarettes are currently hotly debated as threatening to re-normalize cigarette smoking and make nicotine addiction publicly acceptable once more. In this paper I contextualize the e-cigarette controversy in light of longstanding disagreements about the meaning and significance of nicotine replacement technologies. A concerted effort to develop such technologies first emerged in Sweden at the end of the 1960s, embodying a vital tension. Two competing 'scripts' vied to influence and shape innovative designs. On the one hand, Nicorette chewing gum was conceived as a therapeutic device aiding smoking cessation. On the other hand, it was cast as a cigarette substitute designed to deliver nicotine 'in the right way', thereby advancing the creative destruction of the combustible cigarette as a drug delivery platform.
Method: Drawing on historical and archival research I outline how these two alternative innovation scripts started out entangled with each other before becoming disentangled, leading to the eventual stabilization of Nicorette gum as a therapeutic product to be deployed in the treatment of smoking as a dependence disorder.
Results and Conclusion: While a post-therapeutic future for nicotine replacement was charted by Michael Russell at the beginning of the 1990s, it is only with the rise of e-cigarettes after 2003 that such a future has started to verge on reality. E-cigarettes can be seen as resurrecting the historically marginalized script of nicotine replacement as dedicated to righting nicotine consumption and freeing it from the wrongful drug delivery of the modern cigarette.
Highlights:
Analyses e-cigarettes in light of regulatory struggles surrounding first NRT.
Discusses nicotine substitutes as 'scripted’ to treat or disarm addiction.
Uses history of nicotine replacement to advance technological studies of addiction.
Reveals how first NRT was closely modelled on Swedish oral tobacco.
Reveals how Swedish tobacco industry almost commercialized Nicorette gum in 1970s.
Method: Drawing on historical and archival research I outline how these two alternative innovation scripts started out entangled with each other before becoming disentangled, leading to the eventual stabilization of Nicorette gum as a therapeutic product to be deployed in the treatment of smoking as a dependence disorder.
Results and Conclusion: While a post-therapeutic future for nicotine replacement was charted by Michael Russell at the beginning of the 1990s, it is only with the rise of e-cigarettes after 2003 that such a future has started to verge on reality. E-cigarettes can be seen as resurrecting the historically marginalized script of nicotine replacement as dedicated to righting nicotine consumption and freeing it from the wrongful drug delivery of the modern cigarette.
Highlights:
Analyses e-cigarettes in light of regulatory struggles surrounding first NRT.
Discusses nicotine substitutes as 'scripted’ to treat or disarm addiction.
Uses history of nicotine replacement to advance technological studies of addiction.
Reveals how first NRT was closely modelled on Swedish oral tobacco.
Reveals how Swedish tobacco industry almost commercialized Nicorette gum in 1970s.
Affiliation :
Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Cote :
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