Vaping

Alyssa Harlow

Overview: E-cigarette use (i.e., nicotine vaping) poses public health and regulatory dilemmas—e-cigarettes occupy the space of potential harm reduction and smoking cessation for individuals who smoke combustible cigarettes (the leading preventable cause of death and disease globally), while also increasing the risk of nicotine use and associated harms among youth. Vaping also poses unknown health risks to individuals of all ages. When considering the overall public health impact of vaping, it’s important to balance their risks for youth, with their potential as a smoking cessation aid for adults, while also considering potential physical health effects. This playlist provides select papers that address each of these factors to guide readers in an exploration of the public health and population-level impact of e-cigarettes.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
A Randomized Trial of E-Cigarettes versus Nicotine-Replacement Therapy
E-cigarette use and adult cigarette smoking cessation: a meta-analysis
Can e-cigarettes and pharmaceutical aids increase smoking cessation and reduce cigarette consumption? Findings from a nationally representative cohort of American smokers
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Differences in E-Cigarette Uptake Among Cigarette Smokers: Longitudinal Analysis of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study
Potential deaths averted in USA by replacing cigarettes with e-cigarettes
Youth and young adult use of pod-based electronic cigarettes from 2015 to 2019: a systematic review
Association between initial use of e-cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking among adolescents and young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Soneji S, Barrington-Trimis JL, Wills TA, Leventhal AM, Unger JB, Gibson LA, Yang J, Primack BA, Andrews JA, Miech RA, Spindle TR. Association between initial use of e-cigarettes and subsequent cigarette smoking among adolescents and young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA Pediatrics. 2017 Aug 1;171(8):788-97.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28654986/
Flavors of e-cigarettes used by youths in the United States
Adolescents' interest in trying flavoured e-cigarettes
e-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding
Levels of selected carcinogens and toxicants in vapour from electronic cigarettes
E-cigarette Use and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: A Longitudinal Analysis of the PATH Study, 2013-2019
Association of Electronic Cigarette Use with Respiratory Symptom Development among US Young Adults

Xie X, Tackett AP, Berlowitz JB, Harlow AF, Kathuria H, Galiatsatos P, Fetterman JL, Cho J, Blaha MJ, Hamburg NM, Robertson RM, DeFilippis AP, Hall ME, Bhatnagar A, Benjamin EJ, Stokes AC. Association of Electronic Cigarette Use with Respiratory Symptom Development among US Young Adults. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 2022. 205(11):1320-9.
https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/rccm.202107-1718OC
E-cigarette use and respiratory disorders: an integrative review of converging evidence from epidemiological and laboratory studies