What We Do Not Know About e-Cigarettes Is a Lot
Menée aux Etats-Unis à partir de données d'enquêtes réalisées sur la période 2013-2018 auprès de 7 311 adolescents et 4 634 jeunes adultes (âge : 12-17 ans et 18-24 ans), cette étude analyse l'association entre l'utilisation de produits de vapotage aromatisés ou non et les comportements tabagiques
Any dispassionate appraisal of e-cigarettes must acknowledge that much more is unknown than known—most of the iceberg remains underwater. However, despite all this uncertainty, some have rendered global and fairly Manichean pronouncements regarding the threats and benefits of e-cigarettes. Unfortunately, we are largely ignorant not only about the effects of e-cigarettes, but also about the long-term consequences of such public pronouncements. Black and white perspectives on e-cigarettes were clearly manifest in the divergent reactions to the electronic cigarette and vaping product–associated lung injury crisis of 2019, reactions that often preceded meaningful evidence.
JAMA Network Open , éditorial en libre accès, 2019