Discipline/tradition | Areas of research and evidence |
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Addiction | Addictiveness, dual use, progression to tobacco use (“gateway’) |
Cessation | Cessation trials, unassisted cessation, reduction, population quit rates |
Clinical practice | Position statements, clinician education, surveys of clinicians |
Cytotoxicology | Testing of vapour and liquids |
Environmental toxicology | Second-hand vapour testing, impacts on ecology (waste products) |
Epidemiology | Prevalence |
Industry | Advertising and trade practices, Big Tobacco, structure (market, internet sales, vape shops), products (invention, development) |
Law | Briefings on regulation, regulatory status, regulatory process |
Physiology | Effects of use on the body, effects of second-hand exposure, nicotine delivery |
Poison control | Accidental and intentional poisoning |
Product safety | Device safety evaluation, liquid contamination, nicotine content, labeling |
Sociology | User beliefs and behaviours, public opinion |
Tobacco control | Regulation as tobacco, impacts on tobacco control (“renormalization”), intra-disciplinary contestation |
Toxicology | Vapour composition |