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E-Cigarettes and What We Know Now

Identifying current health, scientific and, legal issues, as well as increasing public use and acceptance, this Libguide focuses on the vapping phenomena and its lasting legal and social implications.

FDA authorized the marketing of the first set of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) via the Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA).

FDA, Tobacco Control Act guidance documents

E-Cigarettes (Vaping) Research Reports and Articles:

Michael J. Blaha, MD, 5 Vaping Facts You Need to Know, 2019.

Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Asti Jackson, Meghan Morean, et al., E-Cigarette Devices Used by High-School Youth, 194 Drug and Alcohol Dependence 395 (2019).

Marieke Hiemstra, Rebecca HN.H de Leeeuw, et al., What Parents can do to Keep their Children from Smoking:  A Systematic Review on Smoking-Specific Parenting Strategies and Smoking Onset, 70 Addictive Behaviors 107(2017).

Rachel Bluth, At Raucous Hearing, No Unity on Vaping Issues, KHN  Kaiser Health News, Sept. 24, 2019.

Page D. Dobbs, Kristen Jozkowski, Bart Hammig, et al., College Student E-cigarette Use:  A Reasoned Action Approach Measure Development, 43 Am. J. Health Behav. 753(2019).

Megan Thielking and Helen Branswell, Health Officials are Hunting for the Culprit Behind Vaping-Related Illnesses.  Here are Five Questions about the Outbreak, STAT, Sept. 16, 2019.

Megan Thielking, Vaping-Related Illness has a new Name:  EVALI (E-Cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury), Oct. 11, 2019.

Megan Theilking, FDA 'should have Acted Sooner' on E-Cigarettes, Agency Head Tells Congress, STAT, Sept. 25, 2019.

Yngst JM, Foulds J, Veldheer S, et al., Nicotine Absorption During Electronic Cigarette Use Among Regular Users, PLOS One, 2019.

Rehan HS, Maini J, Hungin APS, Vaping Versus Smoking:  A Quest for Efficacy and Safety of E-Cigarette, Current Drug Safety, 2018.

Lie X, Lu W, Lio S, Deng Z, etal., Efficiency and Adverse Events of Electronic Cigarettes:  A Systemiatic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA-compliant article), Medicine, May, 2018; 97 (19):e0324.

Yogi H. Hendlin, E-Cigarettes and a New Threat -- How to Dispose of Them, Phys.Org News, 2018,

Marieke Hiemstra, Rebecca N.lH. de Leeuw, Rutger C.M.E. Engels, Roy Otten, What Parents can do to Keep Their Children from Smoking:  A Systematic Review on Smoking-Specific Parenting Strategies and Smoking Onset, 70 Addictive Behaviors 107(2017).

Mohammed Dawad, Sena Jawad, Reem K. Waziry, et al., Interventions for Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking Prevention and Cessation:  A Systematic Review,  Scientific Reports, 2016.

My Hua & Prue Talbot, Potential Health Effects of Electronic Cigarettes:  A systematic Review of Case Reports, 4, Preventive Medicine Reports 169 (2016).

The Evolution of Vaping Technology (Tech Times, July 29, 2019).

E-Cigarettes and Hookah

Tamika D. Gilreath, Adam Leventhal, Jessica L. Barrington-Trimis, Patterns of Alternative Tobacco Product Use:  Emergence of Hookah and E. cigarettes as Preferred Products Amongst Youth, 58 Journal of Adolescent Health 181-185(2015).

Victoria L. Owens, Trung Ha, Julia N. Soulakova, Widespread Use of Flavored E-Cigarettes and Hookah Tobacco in the United States, 2019 Preventive Medicine Reports 100854 (2019).

Jessica L. Barrington-Trimis, Adam M. Leventhal, et al., Performance of Cigarette Susceptibility Index Among E-Cigarette and Hookah Users, 183 Drug and Alcohol Dependence 43-50 (2018).

Neal Doran & Kristin Brikmanis, Expectancies for and use of E-cigarettes and Hookah among Young Adult Non-Daily Smokers, 60 Addictive Behaviors 154(2016).

Mohammad Abul Kaisar, Shikha Parasad, Tylor Liles, A Decade of E-Cigarettes:  Limited Research & Unresolved Safety Concerns, 365 Toxicology 67 (2016).

Kimberly G. Wagoner,, DrPH, MPH Jennifer Cornacchione, PhD., Kimberly D. Wiseman, MS, etal., E-Cigarettes, Hookah Pens and Vapes:, 2016 Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 2016.