Eurobarometer survey and e-cigarettes: unsubstantiated claims

Maziak, Wasim; Taleb, Ziyad Ben

doi:10.1111/add.13586

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“…Also, these studies fail to explore how many of those who claim that they have stopped with the aid of e-cigarettes would have stopped anyway and how many of those who used an e-cigarette but failed to stop would have stopped had they used another method. 172 …”

Section: Efficacy In Smoking Cessation and Reductionmentioning

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Electronic cigarettes: an aid in smoking cessation, or a new health hazard?

Farsalinos

2017

Ther Adv Respir Dis

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The issue of electronic cigarettes is one of the most controversial topics in public health. There is intense debate and dividing opinions about their use patterns, health effects and association with smoking. This is expected since they were only recently introduced to the market and they refer to a harm-reduction approach and strategy that is not universally accepted for smoking and tobacco use in the public health community. Three main factors determine the public health impact of electronic cigarettes: (1) their safety/risk profile, both relative to smoking and in absolute terms; (2) their effectiveness for smoking reduction and cessation; (3) the patterns of use by different population subgroups, especially never-smokers, and adoption of use by youth. This analysis presents a brief overview of currently available evidence and gaps in research covering these three factors.

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Section: Efficacy In Smoking Cessation and Reductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Electronic cigarettes: an aid in smoking cessation, or a new health hazard?

Farsalinos

2017

Ther Adv Respir Dis

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“…The take-home message highlighted in publicity about this study was that there were over 6 million people in Europe who used to smoke and reported that they now no longer did on the day they answered the questionnaire, thanks to taking up vaping. But this paper was savaged in a response which made the following criticisms (Maziak and Ben Taleb 2017):…”

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Quit Smoking Weapons of Mass Distraction

Chapman¹

2022

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ISBN 9781743328538 paperback ISBN 9781743328545 epub ISBN 9781743328590 pdf Contents xi Acknowledgements xiii Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 1 How do most people quit other addictions? 12 2 How we study quitting smoking: a critical look 56 3 Quitting unassisted: before and after "evidence-based" methods 79 4 The modest impact of most popular interventions 5 "Don't try to quit cold turkey" 6 Vaping to quit: the latest mass distraction 7 Insights from qualitative research with unassisted quitters 8 Strategies for reducing smoking across populations 9 Controlling tobacco supply and the endgame References Index ixIt is over 45 years since I first became engaged with questions about how best to reduce tobacco use across populations and the diseases that this causes. Across this time I have met, often worked with and become close friends with many of the best minds in international tobacco control. Seventeen years of that time were spent being deputy editor (1992-97) and then editor (1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008) of Tobacco Control, the world's first research journal entirely dedicated to reducing tobacco use and the diseases it causes. During those years, it was a rare day when I was not reading and editing one or more of the thousands of papers that were submitted to the journal, even on Christmas Day. There are very few long-term researchers active across the many disciplinary and sub-topic fields of tobacco control whose most important work I've not read.Trying to list and thank everyone who has ever influenced my thinking about tobacco control is an almost boundless task. But the following people are those to whom across different times -including during the writing of this book -I owe a huge collective debt in many ways:

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“…Maziak & Ben Taleb adopt a more confrontational tone, and the heading of their letter accuses us of ‘unsubstantiated claims’. The explanation of the accusation is that some ex‐smokers would have quit anyway, some may yet go back to smoking, and surveys have a margin of error.…”

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