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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Rogerson, Kenneth
Balleisen, Edward
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Abstract
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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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.Collections
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