Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Despite progress over the past six decades, smoking remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In this book, the authors take a social welfare-based approach to e-cigarette policy rooted in economics, policy analysis, and regulatory science. The authors explore how optimal e-cigarette policy might balance the risks and benefits of e-cigarettes. Risk-proportionate regulation can support smoking cessation while retaining consumer protections and limiting youth's access to tobacco products. The book provides policy-relevant insights for decisionmakers who seek to think more clearly about e-cigarettes and the opportunity they provide for both harm reduction and tobacco control.
In the first volume of this three-volume resource, the authors walk readers through the history of smoking in countries including the US, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Chapters cover marketing strategies and tobacco control strategies in the 20th and 21st centuries. Preparing readers for the second volume, the book explains why current policies focused on regulating tobacco, smoking, and use of e-cigarettes often fail.
Synopsis
The first volume of this three-volume resource presents a historical analysis of the practice of smoking, the rise and fall of the cigarette market, and the successes and failures of tobacco control. While taxes, regulations, and various behavioral and pharmacological interventions have helped many people to quit smoking, they have not helped everyone. The authors explain why these strategies alone are likely insufficient to elicit smoking cessation among the remaining group, and why "ramping up" these strategies may also backfire.
Drawing on examples from the U.S., Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, this volume introduces the technology of e-cigarettes, explaining the origins of the innovation, patterns of use among consumers, and the perception of e-cigarettes among key stakeholder groups.