Vaping: The Great Innovation Public Health Failed to Embrace

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Part I – Health Facts and Falsehoods: The Counter Narrative

After her recent provocative post on retooling our organ procurement systemSally Satel MD is back with another piece encouraging you to rethink a common assumption.

In a two-part Sensible Medicine post, Dr. Satel will argue that the use of electronic cigarettes should be welcomed as a disruptive public health innovation.

This topic has some similarities to her last. Is this an area where we are passing on a good solution because it is not a perfect one — even though we know the “perfect” solution is failing?

In part I, Dr. Satel reviews the facts about vaping and its use. In part 2, she will address the politics of vaping and the roots of opposition.

Adam Cifu

Put aside everything you currently believe and think about the following paragraph, one which could appear in an article reflecting on the biggest healthcare innovations in the last 15 years.

Electronic cigarettes easily top the list of “disruptive technologies in public health.”  In 2014, the Oxford English Dictionary christened “vape” the Word of the Year, a tribute to the impressive rise of the electronic cigarette, a battery-powered device that heats a flavored solution containing nicotine and converts it into an inhalable, or “vape-able,” aerosol.

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Sally Satel – Sensible Medicine – 2023-02-14.

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