The Australia Smoking and Vaping Model: The Potential Impact of Increasing Access to Nicotine Vaping Products.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We model the potential impact of relaxing current nicotine vaping product (NVP) restrictions on public health in Australia.

Aims and methods

A Restricted NVP Scenario was first developed to project current smoking and vaping rates, where a U.S. smoking model was calibrated to recent Australian trends. To model less restrictive NVP policies, a Permissive NVP Scenario applied rates of switching from smoking to vaping, initiation into NVP and cigarette use, and cessation from smoking and vaping based on U.S. trends. The model measures vaping risk relative to the excess mortality rate of smoking. The public health impacts are measured as the difference between smoking- and vaping-attributable deaths (SVADs) and life years lost (LYLs) in the Restricted and Permissive N

SUBMITTER: Levy DT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9910149 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature