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August 06 2014

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Morris Lazootin

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Electronic cigarettes good to go, says study

Written by Morris Lazootin - August 06 2014

As regulatory bodies around the world ponder whether to ban or how heavily to regulate electronic cigarettes, a major scientific review concludes they have a place in smoking cessation programs.
Currently, poison regulations make it illegal to sell e-cigarettes containing nicotine in Australia.
But an international team of leading tobacco researchers, including pharmacologists, psychologists and public health experts, has concluded that allowing e-cigarettes to compete with cigarettes in the marketplace is the right course of action.
Their review of evidence about e-cigarettes, published in the journal Addiction,shows that despite knowledge gaps which require further research, the evidence does not justify regulating them more strictly than, or even as strictly as, conventional tobacco products.

Read the full paper here

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