Electronic Cigarette Use and Public Health
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2017) | Viewed by 178910
Special Issue Editors
Interests: immunology; structural biology; molecular biology; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2 spike function; cholinergic pathway
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Dear Colleagues,
Electronic cigarettes continue to gain popularity and acceptance by consumers, but the public health community is divided on the potential benefits or adverse effects from their use. Contradictory opinions on safety/risk assessment and population effects dominate the discussion. Despite all this, research on electronic cigarettes is intense and continuously growing. Important issues to be addressed include characterizing aerosol chemistry and the risk difference compared to smoking, improving the quality of products, assessing population effects in both adults and youth, evaluating the impact on the smoking status of users, examining use by never-smokers, and, of course, defining appropriate regulatory decisions since they are expected to affect population perceptions, acceptability and adoption of use. Additional issues such as the proper definition of current use and dual use, and the importance of determining frequency of use are vital in assessing the overall population effects. Electronic cigarettes remain an exciting field of research.
The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health invited me to be the Guest Editor for this Special Issue, titled “Electronic Cigarette Use and Public Health”. I invite you to submit your research, analyses and opinion, in order to better understand and explore the e-cigarette phenomenon, and advance the scientific debate and knowledge.
Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos
Prof. Dr. Walton Sumner
Guest Editor
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Keywords
Electronic cigarettes
Public Health
Nicotine
Tobacco
Smoking
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