Electronic cigarettes: Replacing one evil with another?

Electronic Cigarettes Are Another Route to Nicotine Addiction for Youth.

In this issueofJAMAPediatrics, Primackandcolleagues1 show that adolescents andyoungadultswho smokeelectronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) aremuchmore likely than thosewhohad not smoked e-cigarettes to progress to traditional combustible cigaretteuse.Among 694 youthwhowere not susceptible to cigarette use, after 1 year, 68.8% of e-cigarette users and only 18.9% of thosewho had not smoked e-cigarett...

Subs and Sandwiches: Replacing One Ingredient By Another

The Earl system works in the domain of sandwich recipes. We show how Earl uses two sources of knowledge —ingredients knowledge that is extracted from a gastronomy web site, and a case base of sandwich recipes— to propose substitutes for ingredients in sandwich recipes. In particular, we describe four substitution methods: humanauthored substitutions, taxonomically-driven substitutions, lexicall...

Electronic cigarettes

Estimating the health consequences of replacing cigarettes with nicotine inhalers.

BACKGROUND A fast acting, clean nicotine delivery system might substantially displace cigarettes. Public health consequences would depend on the subsequent prevalence of nicotine use, hazards of delivery systems, and intrinsic hazards of nicotine. METHODS A spreadsheet program, DEMANDS, estimates differences in expected mortality, adjusted for nicotine delivery system features and prevalence ...

Potential deaths averted in USA by replacing cigarettes with e-cigarettes

INTRODUCTION US tobacco control policies to reduce cigarette use have been effective, but their impact has been relatively slow. This study considers a strategy of switching cigarette smokers to e-cigarette use ('vaping') in the USA to accelerate tobacco control progress. METHODS A Status Quo Scenario, developed to project smoking rates and health outcomes in the absence of vaping, is compare...