“Cigarette is smoked by 1.1 billion people of the world.” (1) Cigarette is said to be responsible for causing several deaths each yr, however, there is a great percentage of people who want to quit smoking and as a result have tried e-cigarettes. Electronic cigarette is a smokeless tobacco product which was first introduced by China. It is actually an inhaler which rather than burning tobacco, ...

BACKGROUND While much is known about the demand for conventional cigarettes, little is known about the determinants of demand for electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS or e-cigarettes). The goal of this study is to estimate the own and cross-price elasticity of demand for e-cigarettes and to examine the impact of cigarette prices and smoke-free policies on e-cigarette sales. METHODS Quar...

BACKGROUND Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are heavily marketed and widely perceived as helpful for quitting or reducing smoking intensity. We test whether ever-use of e-cigarettes among early adopters was associated with: 1) increased cigarette smoking cessation; and 2) reduced cigarette consumption. METHODS A representative cohort of U.S. smokers (N = 2454) from the 2010 Tobacco Use Su...

We identified and quantified a variety of mineral elements in 18 tobacco samples purchased from a Tunisian market. In total, 25 mineral elements have been measured in cigarettes, water pipe tobacco, and smokeless tobacco using inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy following microwave-assisted digestion. Statistical analyses were performed using SPSSTM, version 18.0. The lowes...

The increasing popularity and availability of electronic cigarettes (i.e., e-cigarettes) in many countries have promoted debate among health professionals as to what to recommend to their patients who might be struggling to stop smoking or asking about e-cigarettes. In the absence of evidence-based guidelines for using e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, some health professionals have urged cau...

OBJECTIVES This study evaluates the effect of a 5 New Taiwan Dollar (NTD 5) Health and Welfare Tax increase on the consumption of domestic and imported cigarettes and cigars. METHODS Using statistics published annually from 1971 through 2000, we set up a model based on the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) demand model to estimate price and expenditure elasticity coefficients of cigarettes a...

INTRODUCTION: Although electronic cigarettes are primarily advertised as smoking cessation tools, recent studies found a significant increase of adolescents who non-smokers initiating the use cigarettes, and understanding rationale behind those non- adolescents’ is not yet well-established. Guided by question “What factors likelihood non-smoking cigarettes?”, this scoping review identifies curr...

Abstract Background At present, there are more than 300 million asthma patients in the world. Electronic cigarettes (e‐cigarettes) considered as a new way of smoking and loved by young people. The relationship between e‐cigarettes risk is still controversial. Therefore, we conducted meta‐analysis to explore asthma. Methods We searched PubMed, Embase, Web Science for research results published b...