Developing a novel e-cigarette regulatory and policy control scale: results from the European Union.

ABSTRACT:

Background

E-cigarette regulations vary considerably between countries though a standard approach for comparing regulatory frameworks does not exist. Additionally, there is no evidence on whether regulatory variations are associated with differences in e-cigarette use and smoking cessation. This study aims to develop a regulatory scale to measure and compare e-cigarette regulations between European Union countries and investigate whether scores are associated with e-cigarette use and smoking cessation.

Methods

Data from a range of sources, such as ECigIntelligence, were used to develop a scale and score countries in the respective areas of e-cigarette scale. We used correlation analysis to investigate association between scale scores and e-cigarettes market, e-cigarette prev

SUBMITTER: Shah A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9721402 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature