Time: 2021-08-20
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In a new observational study conducted by the Yale School of Public Health, researchers have shown that anti-smoking laws in public places may also affect the use of e-cigarettes.
The research was published in the "Addiction" magazine, entitled "Adding e-cigarette restrictions to the no-smoking air law: the association with traditional and e-cigarette use". Changes in smoking cessation patterns in the year, smoking ban and no e-cigarette laws. The results of the study show that the anti-smoking laws are related to the significant reduction in current smoking and e-cigarette use and the increase in the possibility of quitting smoking.
On the other hand, the addition of e-cigarette restrictions in the smoke-free workplace law did not further reduce the use of e-cigarettes. In addition, relative to the anti-smoking law, it offsets more than half of potential e-cigarette users who switch to smoking. The results of this study are consistent with previous studies on non-smoking workplaces and traditional cigarette use, showing that enacting anti-smoking laws can significantly reduce the current smoking rate of young people (5 percentage points, or 36% of the average). The anti-smoking laws led to an increase in the smoking cessation rate among people aged 26 to 54 in the previous year (2.6 percentage points, approximately 21% of the average).
Without e-cigarette rules, it may be counterproductive in quitting smoking. However, the results also show that increasing restrictions on non-smoking workplaces may reduce the impact of anti-smoking laws on young people by more than 50%, and it has provided many phenomena. "Multiple mechanisms can explain the latter relationship; for example, restricting e-cigarettes and smoking in accordance with the same system may reduce the probability of smokers switching to e-cigarettes, thereby causing some potential e-cigarette users to continue smoking." An article from the Yale School of Public Health said. "Most of the current evidence finds that smoking may be more harmful than nicotine. To promote public health, policymakers need to understand how tobacco control laws affect these two behaviors," the assistant professor of Yale School of Public Health, who led the study Abigail Friedman said.