Time: 2022-03-18
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Juul e-cigarette published an article saying that the reviewed study found that banning the use of e-cigarette products may increase cigarette sales.
In the fall of 2019, several states announced temporary bans on the sale of vaping products—Massachusetts implemented a ban on all vaping products in September 2019, and Rhode Island and Washington banned non-tobacco flavors in early October. Similar bans have been imposed on vaping products.
Juul's research team recently published a peer-reviewed study in the journal Health Value examining the potential consequences of a state-level ban on vaping products and the corresponding impact on cigarette sales. Using models based on these product bans, commercial data on cigarette sales, and various control variables, the study assessed how policies in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Washington might affect cigarette sales in those states.
The team found that a blanket ban on vaping products was associated with a 7.5% increase in cigarette sales in Massachusetts or an additional 1.7 million packs of cigarettes sold in the state.
In Washington and Rhode Island, they found that banning non-tobacco-flavored vaping products was associated with a 4.6 percent increase in cigarette sales, or about 1.7 million more cigarettes sold.