Titre : | The renormalization of smoking? E-cigarettes and the tobacco "endgame" (2014) |
Auteurs : | A. L. FAIRCHILD ; R. BAYER ; J. COLGROVE |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | New England Journal of Medicine (Vol.370, n°4, January 23, 2014) |
Article en page(s) : | 293-295 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SAN (Santé publique / Public health) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus géographique ETATS-UNISThésaurus mots-clés TABAC ; E-CIGARETTE ; PUBLICITE ; SANTE PUBLIQUE ; REGLEMENTATION |
Résumé : |
Electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes - battery-operated nicotine-delivery devices that mimic the look and feel of smoking by vaporizing a liquid solution such as propylene glycol - appeared in European and American markets less than a decade ago. Sales have reached $650 million a year in Europe and are projected to reach $1.7 billion in the United States in 2013. Though these figures are a small fraction of sales figures for traditional cigarettes, e-cigarettes represent a substantial market achievement; indeed, some people predict that they may eventually eclipse tobacco cigarettes.
But e-cigarettes are the subject of a public health dispute that has become more furious as their popularity has increased. Whereas some experts welcome the e-cigarette as a pathway to the reduction or cessation of tobacco use, opponents characterize it as a dangerous product that could undermine efforts to denormalize smoking. Already, Boston has applied workplace smoking bans to e-cigarettes. New York City and Los Angeles are poised to go a step further, prohibiting their use in public (including in parks and on beaches), though a similar proposal recently stalled in Chicago. This debate occurs as tobacco-control advocates have begun examining policy options for a tobacco "endgame" - the implementation of radical strategies for eliminating tobacco use globally. [Extract] |
Domaine : | Tabac / Tobacco / e-cigarette |
Refs biblio. : | 5 |
Affiliation : | Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, USA |
Lien : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1313940 |
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