The Siren Call of E-Cigarettes

Many of the e-cigarette recommendations made by the American Heart Association involve initiatives aimed at preventing youth access to the product.

Authors advocated a ban on e-cigarette sales to minors, a tax on e-cigarettes to discourage youth use, and increased FDA regulation on marketing and advertising to youths.

Additional warnings about e-cigarette use among adolescents come from a study published by the CDC, which found that among youths who had never smoked but who used e-cigarettes, those who used e-cigarettes were twice as likely to report an intention to begin smoking as those who did not use e-cigarettes.

In this video feature, health care providers and researchers discuss the most important takeaways from the American Heart Association statement. Our guests include: Deborah J. Ossip, PhD, director of the Smoking Research Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York; J. Taylor Hays, MD, director of the Nicotine Dependence Center at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota; William Bailey, MD, professor of pulmonary medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in Birmingham, Alabama; Daniel Fridberg, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behaviorial neuroscience at the University of Chicago Pritzer School of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois; and Marc Leavey, MD, primary care specialist at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland.

The author disclosed no relevant relationships with industry.

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By Shara Yurkiewicz , Staff Writer, MedPage Today
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Primary source: Nicotine & Tobacco Research
Source reference: Bunnell R, et al "Intentions to smoke cigarettes among never-smoking U.S. middle and high school electronic cigarette users, National Youth Tobacco Survey, 2011-2013" Nicotine Tob Res 2014; DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntu166.