Reduced nicotine content cigarettes, e-cigarettes and the cigarette end game

Neal L Benowitz; Eric C Donny; Dorothy K Hatsukami

doi:10.1111/add.13534

Reduced nicotine content cigarettes, e-cigarettes and the cigarette end game

Addiction. 2017 Jan;112(1):6-7. doi: 10.1111/add.13534. Epub 2016 Aug 23.

Authors

Neal L Benowitz^{1

2}, Eric C Donny³, Dorothy K Hatsukami⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Medical Service, Departments of Medicine, and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
² Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
³ Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
⁴ Tobacco Research Programs and Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Abstract

The reduced nicotine content cigarette and the emergence of non-combusted nicotine products like e-cigarettes should be viewed not as alternatives but as complementary components of regulatory interventions that could virtually end combusted tobacco use.

Keywords: Addiction; alternative nicotine delivery systems; cigarette end game; electronic cigarettes; nicotine; reduced nicotine cigarettes.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems*
Humans
Nicotine*
Smoking / legislation & jurisprudence*
Smoking Cessation / methods*
Tobacco Products / legislation & jurisprudence*

Substances

Nicotine

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Substances

Grants and funding