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Thursday, May 12, 2016
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
NEWS

Updated FDA e-cig 
regulations highlight
University research

Study disproves 

perception of 
e-cigarettes as 
gateway drug

By ALEXA ST. JOHN

Daily Staff Reporter

E-cigarettes — considered an 

alternative to traditional cigarettes 
since their introduction to the 
market in 2003 — are battery-
powered products which vaporize a 
flavored liquid, which is inhaled by 
the user. E-cigarettes are sometimes 
used as tools to quit smoking. 

According to a 2014 survey by 

the Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention, nearly 22 percent 
of adults ages 18 to 24 had tried an 
e-cigarette, and about four percent 
of adults used e-cigarettes every 
day or some days.

The 
rising 
popularity 
of 

e-cigarettes has raised concern 
as to how e-cigarettes would be 
regulated 
and 
marketed, 
and 

whether they would be treated the 
same as traditional cigarettes with 
regard to public policy — despite 
minimal research conducted on the 
health effects of e-cigarettes. 

For example, despite popular 

belief, e-cigarettes contain many 
of 
the 
ingredients 
traditional 

cigarettes do, such as nicotine, 
unknown chemicals, flavorings 
and colorings.

A previous University study 

indicated 
that 
both 
teenage 

e-cigarette users and their parents 
wish to see e-cigarette regulation 
in public places, another concern 
that accompanies the product.

Last Thursday, the Food and 

Drug Administration announced 
that it will regulate e-cigarettes 
and other products — such as cigars 
and hookahs — in the same way it 
regulates traditional cigarettes and 
tobacco.

According to the announcement 

made Thursday by Secretary of 
Health and Human Services Sylvia 
Burwell and FDA commissioner 
Robert Califf, restrictions will be 
placed on the sale and distribution 
of e-cigarettes and other tobacco 

products, including age restrictions 
and advertising and promotion 
restrictions 
for 
public 
health 

purposes. 

Sarah 
Cherng, 
a 
Rackham 

student and lead author of the 
University study, agreed that there 
is a large debate surrounding the 
potential harms and benefits of 
e-cigarettes.

“We’re seeing a very large 

increase in high schoolers and 
adolescents 
using 
electronic 

cigarettes,” Cherng said. “On one 
hand, there are people who are 
very concerned that electronic 
cigarettes are going to act as a 
gateway to traditional smoking 
initiation. Whereas, on the other 
hand, there is the harm reduction 
type research … (which believes) 
e-cigarettes can actually help with 
smoking cessation — help current 
smokers stop smoking.”

The researchers used data from 

resources such as the National 
Health Interview and the CDC 
showing previous and current 
national rates of smoking, as well 
as statistics on the growth rate of 
e-cigarette usage, to come up with 
a simulation model.

Cherng said the researchers 

wanted to perform a quantitative 
analysis to see whether e-cigarettes 
act as a gateway to smoking 
initiation or as an aid for current 
smokers who need to quit.

There has so far been few studies 

looking into the health differences 
of using a traditional cigarette 
and an e-cigarette, as well as little 
research on the long-term effects 
of using e-cigarettes as a cessation 
device.

According to the University 

study, a 20 percent increase in the 
rate of smoking cessation would 
correlate to a six percent reduction 
in overall smoking popluation by 
the year 2060. On the contrary, for 
smoking rates to increase by six 
percent in 2060, smoking initiation 
would have to increase by 200 
percent — an unlikely occurrence, 
according to the researchers.

“Based on the patterning of 

e-cigarette 
use 
among 
adults 

right now … their use is primarily 
concentrated 
among 
current 

RESEARCH

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