Titre : | Developing a novel e-cigarette regulatory and policy control scale: Results from the European Union (2022) |
Auteurs : | A. SHAH ; J. BRITTON ; I. BOGDANOVICA |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy (Vol.29, n°6, December 2022) |
Article en page(s) : | 719-725 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | LOI (Loi et son application / Law enforcement) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus géographique UNION EUROPEENNE ; EUROPE ; ROYAUME-UNIThésaurus mots-clés E-CIGARETTE ; POLITIQUE ; REGLEMENTATION ; ARRET DU TABAC ; COMPARAISON |
Résumé : |
Background: E-cigarette regulations vary considerably between countries though a standard approach for comparing regulatory frameworks does not exist. Additionally, there is no evidence on whether regulatory variations are associated with differences in e-cigarette use and smoking cessation. This study aims to develop a regulatory scale to measure and compare e-cigarette regulations between European Union countries and investigate whether scores are associated with e-cigarette use and smoking cessation.
Methods: Data from a range of sources, such as ECigIntelligence, were used to develop a scale and score countries in the respective areas of e-cigarette scale. We used correlation analysis to investigate association between scale scores and e-cigarettes market, e-cigarette prevalence and use of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation. Results: An e-cigarette scale consisting of 10 domains was developed. Our analysis suggests that higher e-cigarette scale scores were associated with significantly greater use of e-cigarettes within countries, and greater increases in the prevalence of former smoking smokers between 2014 and 2017. Conclusions: Whilst further work is needed to develop the scale in line with rapidly changing regulatory landscape and product development, the current findings suggest that countries that have implemented e-cigarette regulations might be more successful in obtaining public health gains such as increase in the proportion of former smokers compared to countries where e-cigarette market and sales is not regulated. |
Domaine : | Tabac / Tobacco / e-cigarette |
Affiliation : | School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK |
Cote : | Abonnement |
Lien : | https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2021.1959520 |
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