Constructive Cigarette Regulation

Constructive cigarette regulation.

Professor W. Kip Viscusi argues for a move away from the adversarial approach to tobacco regulation, an approach that is currently embodied in class action lawsuits and the proposed broadening of FDA regulatory power over cigarettes. In this Article, he suggests that the FDA should take a constructive role in fostering technological innovations to promote cigarette safety, in much the same way...

Regulation of cigarette emissions.

Where consideration has been given to specific components of cigarettes, attention has tended to concentrate on tar and nicotine. Even then, it is not uniformly applied since, for example, it is still voluntary to put tar and nicotine yield information on cigarettes for sale in the USA. 'Tar' is a catch-all name for a wide range of chemicals which are generated in cigarette smoke. It is only re...

ADDITIVES, CIGARETTE DESIGN and TOBACCO PRODUCT REGULATION

Sidestream cigarette smoke and cardiac autonomic regulation

BACKGROUND The literature has already demonstrated that cigarette influences the cardiovascular system. In this study, we performed a literature review in order to investigate the relationship between sidestream cigarette smoke (SSCS) and cardiac autonomic regulation. METHODS Searches were performed on Medline, SciELO, Lilacs and Cochrane databases using the crossing between the key-words: "c...

Constructive Interactions Constructive Interactions

The new paradigm of “knowledge construction using experiential based and collaborative learning approaches” is an outstanding opportunity for interdisciplinary research. This document is an attempt to introduce and exemplify as much as possible using the lexicon of “social sciences”, considerations and tools belonging to “artificial intelligence” (e.g.: the machine learning tradition). In the p...