Abstract

The up-rise in e-cigarette use - friend or foe?

Highlights

  • Following the millennium shift, the market for ecigarettes has expanded logarithmically, and today there are hundreds of e-cigarette products and thousands of flavor variations

  • In the UK [3], there is an opinion favoring the use of ecigarettes as a smoking cessation tool among smokers, while others strongly believe the contrary [4]

  • * Correspondence: bo.lundback@gu.se 1Krefting Research Centre, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, SE-40530, Gothenburg, Sweden Full list of author information is available at the end of the article associated disease seem to be prone to switch to ecigarettes, as demonstrated by one paper in this issue of Respiratory Research from the UK [8]

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Summary

Introduction

The market for ecigarettes has expanded logarithmically, and today there are hundreds of e-cigarette products and thousands of flavor variations. The public health community seems to be divided, and safety and efficacy aspects of e-cigarettes for smoking cessation have been unclear.

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