The Wild, Wild West of E-Cigarettes

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What are e-cigarettes, hookah tobacco and other vapor products? Who is using them, how do they impact health, and how are they regulated? Research to understand these new products and their consequences is in its earliest stages, but the market is seeing a stampede of new users drawn by flavors (in cigars, too), electronic gadgets, and the sense that these products aren’t dangerous.

Join Prevention Partners and two national experts on September 10 as we look at:

• Who is using e-cigarettes, their rates of use, and the pros and cons of the products. Dr. Jessica Pepper, UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Public Health, has been studying e-cigarettes for the last three years and will share the latest usage data.
• An update on proposed regulations from the Food and Drug Administration, and opportunities for giving the FDA feedback from Denny Henigan, JD, Director of Legal and Policy Analysis for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Henigan was the primary author of the Tobacco Partners Coalition’s comments on the FDA’s proposed “deeming rule” to extend its authority to regulate all tobacco products including e-cigarettes, hookah tobacco, and others.
• Recommendations and sample policies for regulating e-cigarettes in workplaces, clinics and hospitals.

“It’s critical that we build our understanding and awareness of these products as the FDA considers how to regulate them,” says Prevention Partners Senior Advisor Melva Fager Okun. “Poisonings are becoming more common as liquid nicotine products make it into people’s homes. The flavors and packaging for e-cigarettes are very attractive to youth – with no health warnings, no control on marketing, and minimal control over sales at this point.”

Learn more here about Patient Quit-Tobacco System, a signature tool from the nonprofit Prevention Partners. Prevention Partners builds healthier communities through a suite of products that guide schools, workplaces, hospitals and clinics to address the leading causes of preventable disease: tobacco use, poor nutrition, physical inactivity and obesity.