Criticism and lecturing won’t help. This will.
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We work as part of a team researching drug education. Schools tell us there are rising expulsions due to vaping. We have also heard of students being home schooled so they can continue to vape.
Governments and health bodies agree: it’s time for action on vape imports and sale. But which option will they choose?
A new review has examined the research on vaping. It found Australia is in need of a pragmatic harm reduction approach.
E-cigarettes may be a useful tool to help people quit smoking, but emerging evidence shows how important it is to make this only the first step in giving up altogether.
It’s often said if cigarettes were invented tomorrow, and we knew now what we didn’t know then, they would be banned outright. But vaping is showing us we’re repeating the same mistakes.
In the 1980s and 90s, legal action and awareness helped shift attitudes to tobacco smoking. We have laws against vaping in smoke-free places but the attitude shift is lagging.
Companies selling e-cigarettes are marketing their products to teenagers and young adults.
The vaping craze sweeping the globe is leaving a legacy of contaiminated e-waste in landfill while waste management authorities scramble to set up recycling schemes.
How providing information on the health risks of vaping through expert advice and personal testimonies can help steer students away from using e-cigarettes.
It might be tempting to fly off the handle and deliver a lecture on the dangers of vaping. But here’s what might actually work.
Big Tobacco’s efforts to rehabilitate its image should not go unchallenged because the tobacco industry’s goal remains advancing corporate profit at the expense of public health.
South Africa was once a leader in tobacco use control but has since fallen behind, and smoking prevalence has steadily increased.
Most teens got their vape from their friends. But of those who bought their own, one-third bought it at the servo, tobacconist or convenience store.
The nearly half-billion-dollar settlement orders Juul to tamp down its targeting of the teen market.
Wellness vapes are marketed as healthy lifestyle supplements, but the claims of their beneficial effects are not supported by evidence.
Legislation now entering parliament aims to make Aotearoa New Zealand smokefree by 2025. Forecast effects show huge potential health gains, especially for Māori.
E-cigarettes are facing calls for complete bans on their sale. A tobacco addiction researcher explores the balance between vaping’s harm to teens and potential use as a tool for quitting smoking.
If the crisis worsens, more people will ask, how did this happen? The answer will be simple: governments made good laws, but they did not enforce them.
As the comment period begins for the FDA’s proposed ban, public health experts explain the stakes.
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Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Rutgers University
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Emeritus Professor, National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior, University at Buffalo
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Research Affiliate, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Academic and Director Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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Professor of Chemistry, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont
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Associate Professor and Head of Respiratory Environmental Health, The Kids Research Institute Australia; Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, University of East Anglia