Public Health Consequences of E Cigarettes
Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes, even as rates of smoking combustible tobacco cigarettes continue to decline among youth and adults. In 2016 youth e-cigarette use was substantially higher than cigarette smoking or use of any other tobacco product. The Center for Tobacco Products of the Food and Drug Administration requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convene a committee of experts to conduct a review the available evidence of the health effects related to the use of e-cigarettes and identify future federally funded research needs. The resulting report is a comprehensive and systematic review of the literature that evaluates the evidence about e-cigarettes and health, highlights gaps that are a priority for future research, and makes recommendations to improve the quality of this research.
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Nowadays, there is a lot of interest in e-cigarettes and the impact of its use in public health. Little research has focused on the device itself as a drug delivery unit and its potential for using other drugs, different than nicotine. A recently published paper analyzes a range of illicit drugs on pharmacodynamics, usual method of administration, the dosage required for toxicity, toxic effects, and evidence of existing use in e-cigarettes in both literature and online illicit drug forums. Currently, people use e-cigarettes to vape almost all illegal types of drugs, which presents both a potential population health risk and a management issue for clinicians.
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