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ArticleTobacco control2024

Understanding the nicotine dose delivered by electronic nicotine delivery systems in a single puff: the importance of nicotine flux and puff duration.

Thomas Eissenberg, Alan Shihadeh, CSTP Nicotine Flux Work Group

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Article in Tobacco control, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Thomas EissenbergDepartment of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8277-5437
Alan ShihadehCenter for the Study of Tobacco Products, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA as20@aub.edu.lb.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6387-8564
CSTP Nicotine Flux Work Group

Funding

Project 4: Using a prospective cohort survey to test population-level predictions generated by Projects 1-3U54DA036105 · NIDA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI BRELAND, ALISON, EISSENBERG, THOMAS EVAN · 2018 to 2022
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NIDA NIH HHS U54 DA036105
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) may lead to public health benefit if they help people who smoke quit smoking, and may lead to public health harm if they recruit a new generation of nicotine-dependent people. Regulators intent on maximising ENDS' public health benefit and minimising harm may be interested in regulating the nicotine dose delivered by ENDS in a single puff. The per-puff nicotine dose is the product of ENDS nicotine emission rate (or 'nicotine flux') and the duration of the puff taken by the person using the ENDS (or 'puff duration'). Nicotine flux can be measured or predicted mathematically for any ENDS device/liquid combination. Puff duration can be controlled electronically, as demonstrated by several ENDS marketed today. Combining nicotine flux and puff duration regulation is feasible today and provides authorities the means to limit nicotine dose per puff to a level that may help people who smoke quit smoking while reducing the possibility that nicotine-naive individuals will engage in repeated ENDS use. Tobacco regulatory science and product regulation will both be improved by a rigorous approach to understanding, characterising, and reporting the nicotine dose emitted by ENDS.

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AddictionElectronic nicotine delivery devicesNicotineSmoking topography

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PMID38897725
PMCPMC11655706

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