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18.8 Population-level benefits and harms of increasing e-cigarette use
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Relevant news and research: Population-level benefits and harms of increasing e-cigarette use

Sajid, F. (2025). Debunking e-cigarette myths: a public health necessity - disentangling facts from fiction. Monaldi Arch Chest Dis. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40994408


Walia, D. and Goel, S. (2025). Twisting the truth: How the tobacco industry misleads the public through harm reduction. Indian J Med Res, 1, 127-128. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40991216


Fearon, I. M. and Murphy, M. A. (2025). Why We Need Greater, Not Less, Access to Reduced-Risk Nicotine Products. Cureus, 8, e90452. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40837554


Maddox, R., Heris, C., Waa, A., Teddy, L., Upton, P., Henderson, P. N., Kornacki, C., Rodriguez, J., Lee, J., Tautolo, E. S., Martinez, S. A., Bradbrook, S. K. and Kennedy, M. (2025). Colonial harm in new packaging: Indigenous critiques of the tobacco industry's 'harm reduction' rhetoric. Health Promot Int, 4. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40728114


Mzhavanadze, G. and Dubrovskiy, V. (2025). Potential impact of e-cigarettes on life-years lost from conventional smoking in Ukraine, a replication study. Cent Eur J Public Health, 2, 132-139. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40625138


Valentish, J. (2025). The vape dilemma. ABC News. Available from:


Vu, G. T., Sun, T., Hall, W., Connor, J. P., Thai, P., Gartner, C., Leung, J. and Chan, G. (2025). Trends in Social Norms Toward Cigarette Smoking and E-cigarette Use Among U.S. Youth Between 2015 and 2021. Nicotine Tob Res. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40582712


Howard, S. (2025). E-cigarettes risk "renormalising" smoking, says major new WHO report. BMJ, r1300. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40555425


Polosa, R., Geraci, G. and Adebisi, Y. A. (2025). When meta-analysis misleads: the need for methodological integrity in e-cigarette research. Intern Emerg Med. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40528124


Scholz, J. R., Ziotti, S. D. V. and Fernandes, P. M. P. (2025). Electronic cigarette: a grand deception?. Sao Paulo Med J, 3, e20251433. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40498898


Maddox, R., Waa, A., Calma, T. and Whop, L. J. (2025). Oversimplification of a complex public health issue that serves exploitative industry interests. Addiction. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40342077/


Mendelsohn, C. P., Beaglehole, R., Borland, R., Hall, W., Wodak, A., Youdan, B. and Chan, G. C. K. (2025). Response to letter commenting on: Do the differing vaping and smoking trends in Australia and New Zealand reflect different regulatory policies?. Addiction. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40343394


Anderson, R., Jones, M. and Jongenelis, M. I. (2025). Industry actor communication practices in submissions on electronic nicotine delivery system policy in Australia. Tob Control. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40234060


Banks, E., Scollo, M., Gartner, C., Freeman, B., Brown, S., Campbell, S., Yazidjoglou, A. and The National E-cigarette Monitoring and Evidence Consortium (2025). National E-cigarette Monitoring and Evidence Consortium: Supporting informed research, policy and practice in Australia. Aust N Z J Public Health, 2, 100233. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40187043


Hardie, L., Freeman, B. and McCool, J. (2025). An analysis of e-cigarette policy action, inaction and industry influence: implications for youth uptake in New Zealand. Perspect Public Health, 17579139251322009. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40099849


Sharma, S., Meister, M., Weaver, S., Zelikoff, J., Bell-Huff, C., Black, M., Shannahan, J. and Wright, C. (2025). The beginning of ENDS (electronic nicotine delivery systems): origins, trends, and regulatory considerations. Inhal Toxicol, 1-Sep. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40146120


Yach, D. (2025). New-generation nicotine delivery products require new approaches to research. Intern Emerg Med. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/40153126


Mendelsohn, C. P., Beaglehole, R., Borland, R., Hall, W., Wodak, A., Youdan, B. and Chan, G. C. K. (2025). Do the differing vaping and smoking trends in Australia and New Zealand reflect different regulatory policies?. Addiction. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39924453


Compton, W. M. (2025). Research on Noncigarette Tobacco Products and Public Health. JAMA Netw Open, 1, e2453969. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39804651


Abozenah, M., Nazir, N. T., Sareen, N., Brandt, E., Pack, Q. R., Ibebuogu, U., Shetty, M., Singh, K., Stecker, E. C. and Yang, E. (2024). Tobacco Use, Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, and Vulnerable Populations: Current Landscape and Opportunities for Improvement. JACC Adv, 11, 101362. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39620067


Hawkins, B. (2024). Tobacco Industry Engagement in the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee E-Cigarettes Inquiry. Int J Health Policy Manag, 8341. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39620536


Earlier news and research

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