Rescuing Vapers Versus Rescuing Smokers: The Ethics.

ABSTRACT: Suppose for the sake of argument that wide access to electronic cigarettes would help a great many smokers quit and others avoid smoking, with a dramatic cumulative effect on population health. But suppose also that nowadays, teenagers rarely benefit from that effect, because most do not smoke and are not expected to smoke as adults. Many teenagers do vape. When the net effect of vaping on general public health is expected to remain very positive, should we nevertheless fight vaping, so as to protect teenagers from the direct risks of vaping? For example, what to do if and when certain targeted regulations that would protect teenagers would also, by making it harder to vape, substantially increase smoking in the general population? This situation may be common, and, by pitting the health i

SUBMITTER: Eyal N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7789942 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature