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    To smoke or to vape? E-cigarette regulation in the US, the UK, and Canada

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    2018-12-05
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    Sear, Amanda
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    Rogerson, Kenneth
    Balleisen, Edward
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    E-cigarettes are hailed by some as a positive development in the war against smoking and reviled by others as a weapon used to addict a new generation to nicotine. This dichotomy highlights an important debate about e-cigarette risk trade-offs: how can governments strike a balance between promoting e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid / reduced harm alternative for adult smokers and ensuring that e-cigarettes don’t act as “gateway drugs” to smoking for adolescents and other non-smokers? To this end, this thesis will specifically examine how the US, the UK, and Canada are regulating e-cigarettes. This thesis will show that policymakers often must grapple with risk trade-offs, even if they do not explicitly say as much. I also show that at least in the case of e-cigarette regulation, policymakers focus more on scientific evidence when business interests are fractured. Due to a lack of explicit risk trade-off analyses, however, their assessments of risks vary based on society-specific concerns, which then contributes to great variations in regulation. These variations thus emphasize the need for better cost-benefit analyses of risk-risk trade-offs.
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    Honors thesis
    Department
    Sanford School of Public Policy/Public Policy Studies
    Subject
    e-cigarettes
    United States
    Canada
    United Kingdom
    regulation
    risk-risk trade-offs
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    https://hdl.handle.net/10161/17925
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    Sear, Amanda (2018). To smoke or to vape? E-cigarette regulation in the US, the UK, and Canada. Honors thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/17925.
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