The electronic cigarette: a knight in shining armour or a Trojan horse?†

Electronic cigarettes have caused a sharp debate in the public health community, with some promoting them as a means of harm reduction for tobacco users and some taking a strong stand against them because of fear of renormalising smoking behaviour and interrupting tobacco control progress. People wi...

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Autor principal: Schluger, Neil W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2014
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4180982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25285216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.114.048439
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description Electronic cigarettes have caused a sharp debate in the public health community, with some promoting them as a means of harm reduction for tobacco users and some taking a strong stand against them because of fear of renormalising smoking behaviour and interrupting tobacco control progress. People with mental health problems smoke at high rates and e-cigarettes seem a potentially attractive method of cessation in this population, and their use should be studied carefully.
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spelling pubmed-41809822014-10-03 The electronic cigarette: a knight in shining armour or a Trojan horse?† Schluger, Neil W. Psychiatr Bull (2014) Editorial Electronic cigarettes have caused a sharp debate in the public health community, with some promoting them as a means of harm reduction for tobacco users and some taking a strong stand against them because of fear of renormalising smoking behaviour and interrupting tobacco control progress. People with mental health problems smoke at high rates and e-cigarettes seem a potentially attractive method of cessation in this population, and their use should be studied carefully. Royal College of Psychiatrists 2014-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4180982/ /pubmed/25285216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.114.048439 Text en © 2014 The Author http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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