Harm Reduction
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Youth Vaping in the United States: Risks, Trends, and Potential Policy Solutions
The use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (or ENDS) among youth in the United States has become a serious public health concern for many reasons. These systems — commonly referred to as electronic cigarettes (or just, “e-cigarettes”), vape pens, or even “juuls” — work by heating nicotine-containing fluid to form an aerosol that users inhale.…
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Juul from a Global Perspective
A Popular Product The Tobacco Atlas Team is based in the United States, but we hail from all parts of the world and perhaps consequently, we tend to think about tobacco control from a decidedly global perspective. Recently, one of the liveliest topics in tobacco control has been about a specific e-cigarette brand that has…
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NIDA Announces a Research E-Cigarette: Brings More Certainty to Clinical Studies
Over the past century, efforts to study the health effects of cigarette smoking have also led to tremendous advances in the way we conduct clinical and population health science research. An important innovation in the development of laboratory experiments on smoking was the development of the research cigarette, seen below. This research cigarette helped…