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E-Cigarettes: Effective Cessation Tools Or Public Health Threat?, Luke Clancy, Kate Babineau
E-Cigarettes: Effective Cessation Tools Or Public Health Threat?, Luke Clancy, Kate Babineau
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In a short time, electronic cigarettes have become a multi-billion dollar industry. Since their introduction to the market, prevalence of ever-use among smokers in the USA appears to have increased from 2% in 2010 to >30% in 2012, and the rate of increase appears to be similar in the United Kingdom, Ireland and other Western countries according to a special Eurobarometer survey in 2014.1 The e-cigarette market is estimated to be worth over $3 billion. However, there is no consensus on the role of e-cigarettes and their contribution to the provision of smoking cessation (SC) services, nor to global tobacco …