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Public awareness, prevalence, and regulations for the sale of electronic cigarettes in Arab countries: A narrative review

The majority of the Arab countries have high records of daily tobacco smoking. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) use has exponentially increased in the past decade in Arab countries. Consumers’ willingness to quit smoking traditional cigarettes and their perception of e-cigarettes as a safer alte...

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Autores principales: Jirjees, Feras, Dallal Bashi, Yahya H., Kharaba, Zelal, Ahmadi, Keivan, Barakat, Muna, AlObaidi, Hala
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Publishing on behalf of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases (ISPTID) 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10603825/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37901882
http://dx.doi.org/10.18332/tid/168435
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author Jirjees, Feras
Dallal Bashi, Yahya H.
Kharaba, Zelal
Ahmadi, Keivan
Barakat, Muna
AlObaidi, Hala
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Dallal Bashi, Yahya H.
Kharaba, Zelal
Ahmadi, Keivan
Barakat, Muna
AlObaidi, Hala
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description The majority of the Arab countries have high records of daily tobacco smoking. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) use has exponentially increased in the past decade in Arab countries. Consumers’ willingness to quit smoking traditional cigarettes and their perception of e-cigarettes as a safer alternative to conventional cigarettes have increased the demand for these devices. This narrative review aimed to gather and discuss the available literature on the awareness, prevalence, and sales regulations of e-cigarettes in Arab countries. A search was conducted on electronic databases such as PubMed, Medline, Scopus, and Google Scholar with no time limits until the end of 2021. Some of the recent studies (2019–2021) considered in this review have reported that more than 25% of participants were e-cigarettes users. The prevalence of e-cigarettes has increased drastically with raised awareness of e-cigarettes among the population in these Arab countries. Most of the users of e-cigarettes are young males. In addition, an increase in e-cigarettes use has been reported in females. The policies which regulate trade and sale of e-cigarettes and related products were issued in only three Arab countries. In contrast, regulations for the trade and sale of traditional cigarette products are also applied in some countries to e-cigarette products, banning the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and/or amend smoke-free laws to restrict public use of e-cigarettes. There is a need for a concerted effort to assess the prevalence and significant rise of e-cigarettes consumption in Arab societies to help implement and improve harm reduction policies.
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spelling pubmed-106038252023-10-28 Public awareness, prevalence, and regulations for the sale of electronic cigarettes in Arab countries: A narrative review Jirjees, Feras Dallal Bashi, Yahya H. Kharaba, Zelal Ahmadi, Keivan Barakat, Muna AlObaidi, Hala Tob Induc Dis Review Paper The majority of the Arab countries have high records of daily tobacco smoking. Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) use has exponentially increased in the past decade in Arab countries. Consumers’ willingness to quit smoking traditional cigarettes and their perception of e-cigarettes as a safer alternative to conventional cigarettes have increased the demand for these devices. This narrative review aimed to gather and discuss the available literature on the awareness, prevalence, and sales regulations of e-cigarettes in Arab countries. A search was conducted on electronic databases such as PubMed, Medline, Scopus, and Google Scholar with no time limits until the end of 2021. Some of the recent studies (2019–2021) considered in this review have reported that more than 25% of participants were e-cigarettes users. The prevalence of e-cigarettes has increased drastically with raised awareness of e-cigarettes among the population in these Arab countries. Most of the users of e-cigarettes are young males. In addition, an increase in e-cigarettes use has been reported in females. The policies which regulate trade and sale of e-cigarettes and related products were issued in only three Arab countries. In contrast, regulations for the trade and sale of traditional cigarette products are also applied in some countries to e-cigarette products, banning the sale of e-cigarettes to minors and/or amend smoke-free laws to restrict public use of e-cigarettes. There is a need for a concerted effort to assess the prevalence and significant rise of e-cigarettes consumption in Arab societies to help implement and improve harm reduction policies. European Publishing on behalf of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases (ISPTID) 2023-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10603825/ /pubmed/37901882 http://dx.doi.org/10.18332/tid/168435 Text en © 2023 Jirjees F. et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Kharaba, Zelal
Ahmadi, Keivan
Barakat, Muna
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title_short Public awareness, prevalence, and regulations for the sale of electronic cigarettes in Arab countries: A narrative review
title_sort public awareness, prevalence, and regulations for the sale of electronic cigarettes in arab countries: a narrative review
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http://dx.doi.org/10.18332/tid/168435
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