Rachel Grana

TL;DR: E-cigarette products are changing quickly, and many of the findings from studies of older products may not be relevant to the assessment of newer products that could be safer and more effective as nicotine delivery devices, so patterns of use and the ultimate impact on public health may differ.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the main advertising claims made on branded e-cigarette retail websites and find that 95% of the websites made explicit or implicit health-related claims, 64% had a smoking cessation-related claim, 22% featured doctors and 76% claimed that the product does not produce secondhand smoke.

TL;DR: Some Korean adolescents may be responding to advertising claims that e-cigarettes are a cessation aid: those who had made an attempt to quit were more likely to use e-cigarette but less likely to no longer use cigarettes.

TL;DR: A longitudinal analysis of a national sample of current US smokers to determine whether e-cigarettes use predicted successful quitting, or reduced cigarette consumption, found that e-cigarette users were less likely to have quit at 7 months than non-users.

TL;DR: School based curricula alone have been generally ineffective in the long term in preventing adolescents from initiating tobacco use but are effective when combined with other approaches such as media and smoke-free policies.