There can be smoke without fire: warranted caution in promoting electronic cigarettes and heat not burn devices as a safer alternative to cigarette smoking

Kielan Darcy McAlinden; Sukhwinder Singh Sohal; Pawan Sharma

doi:10.1183/23120541.00114-2019

There can be smoke without fire: warranted caution in promoting electronic cigarettes and heat not burn devices as a safer alternative to cigarette smoking

ERJ Open Res. 2019 Aug 12;5(3):00114-2019. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00114-2019. eCollection 2019 Jul.

Authors

Kielan Darcy McAlinden¹, Sukhwinder Singh Sohal², Pawan Sharma^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
² Respiratory Translational Research Group, Dept of Laboratory Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia.
³ Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Abstract

The tobacco industry is now shifting its focus from combustible cigarettes to promoting the "safer" electronic nicotine delivery alternatives. This editorial presents emerging challenges these devices pose to human health. http://bit.ly/2xdAjD0.

Publication types

Editorial