Guidance to employers on integrating e-cigarettes/electronic nicotine delivery systems into tobacco worksite policy.
Abstract
In recent years, new products have entered the marketplace that complicate decisions
about tobacco control policies and prevention in the workplace. These products, called
electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) or electronic nicotine delivery systems, most
often deliver nicotine as an aerosol for inhalation, without combustion of tobacco.
This new mode of nicotine delivery raises several questions about the safety of the
product for the user, the effects of secondhand exposure, how the public use of these
products should be handled within tobacco-free and smoke-free air policies, and how
their use affects tobacco cessation programs, wellness incentives, and other initiatives
to prevent and control tobacco use. In this article, we provide a background on e-cigarettes
and then outline key policy recommendations for employers on how the use of these
new devices should be managed within worksite tobacco prevention programs and control
policies.
Type
Journal articleSubject
AdultElectronic Cigarettes
Humans
Occupational Health
Organizational Policy
Smoke-Free Policy
United States
Workplace
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/14626Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1097/JOM.0000000000000420Publication Info
Whitsel, Laurie P; Benowitz, Neal; Bhatnagar, Aruni; Bullen, Chris; Goldstein, Fred;
Matthias-Gray, Lena; ... Terry, Paul (2015). Guidance to employers on integrating e-cigarettes/electronic nicotine delivery systems
into tobacco worksite policy. J Occup Environ Med, 57(3). pp. 334-343. 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000420. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/14626.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Gregg M. Stave
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