You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Industry watch
Electronic cigarettes: a new ‘tobacco’ industry?
  1. Jonathan K Noel,
  2. Vaughan W Rees,
  3. Gregory N Connolly
  1. Center for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Society, Human Development & Health Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
  1. Correspondence to Vaughan Rees, Harvard School of Public Health, Global Center for Tobacco Control, Landmark Building, Level 3 East 677, Huntington Ave Boston, MA 02115, USA; vrees{at}hsph.harvard.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/tc.2010.038562

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) have gained considerable attention since their introduction into European and American markets in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Research to date has focused on acute exposure,1 2 nicotine delivery1–3 and consumer response,4 yet little information has so far been available on this new and rapidly developing industry. Knowledge of e-cigarette sales and marketing strategies is needed to fully inform responses from the tobacco control community, including consideration of product regulation.5

    In the USA, e-cigarette promotion has coalesced around three organisations. The Electronic Cigarette Association ‘was founded to institute and promote industry-wide standards and a code of conduct, work to maintain sound professional and practices, educate the public and policy-makers on the …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Funding National Cancer Institute grant # 1R01-CA-125224.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.