Experts, including the deans of three U.S. public health schools, warn about a potential backlash from 'prohibitionist' measures.
"As we move to confront these challenges, we face the danger that justifiable alarm will turn alarmist, short-circuiting careful analysis of the full range of evidence and focusing attention on the most frightening," the authors wrote.
Blanket bans may push e-cigarette smokers to the black market or back to smoking traditional cigarettes."We seem to feel like the evidence has suddenly shifted, when in fact, it hasn't," said Amy Fairchild, lead author of the new article and dean of The Ohio State University College of Public Health."We shouldn't take our eyes off what the real problem is."
The authors aren't arguing that e-cigarettes are harmless, but they seem to be safer than their traditional counterparts. Americans have historically been slow to warm to the notion of harm reduction, which is the idea of substituting safer -- although not necessarily safe -- health behaviors, in place of riskier ones.
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