The University of Waterloo in Ontario Canada, is to conduct a $10-million study looking into the behavioural and potential health impacts of policies on e-cigarettes and other alternative nicotine products.
The five-year study will be funded by the United States’ National Cancer Institute, and it aims to look into the impact of different regulatory approaches to e-cigarettes and other innovative nicotine products among youth and adults in seven countries.
“Understanding the use of these products among both youth and adults is critical to understanding which policies are the most effective in decreasing tobacco use and curbing youth uptake of e-cigarettes,” said lead study author professor David Hammond.
“The timing of this project is ideal since policies are still evolving in Canada and other countries,” he added. The University highlighted that while different countries have adopted different strategies, adding that some governments actually encourage the use of the products for smoking cessation.
Diane Caruana – VapingPost – 2022-07-06
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