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Commentary on Etter & Bullen (2011): Could E‐cigs become the ultimate nicotine maintenance device?
Author(s) -
FOULDS JONATHAN,
VELDHEER SUSAN
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0965-2140
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03532.x
Subject(s) - nicotine , electronic cigarette , addiction , tobacco harm reduction , environmental health , nicotine replacement therapy , consumption (sociology) , product (mathematics) , business , promotion (chess) , public health , advertising , medicine , psychiatry , political science , tobacco use , population , law , social science , geometry , mathematics , nursing , pathology , sociology , politics
If people have difficulty overcoming both nicotine dependence and long-term habit change, then surely the solution is to help them avoid most of the health risks with only a minimal alteration in their nicotine-seeking habits. This implies a nicotine replacement device which looks like a cigarette and delivers cigarette-like boli of nicotine, but does not deliver the tar and carbon monoxide which cause the vast majority of smoking-related disease . . . the development and promotion of such a product (and its eventual replacement of tobacco) could have massive beneficial public health implications lasting into the 21st century [4].