E-cigarettes are one example of a more recent category of tobacco product in the United States: electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS)
Chaiton et al., 2021) indicate 78% relative reductions in smoking prevalence
Benefits include behavioral counseling (e.g., individual and group counseling) and cessation medication (e.g., nicotine replacement therapy, bupropion, varenicline) but not e-cigarettes because the FDA has not approved e-cigarettes as a cessation aid. Louisiana Medicaid spends nearly $40 billion annually on treating tobacco-related diseases and disability, explained Michael Celestin, PhD, who is the director of the Louisiana Tobacco Control Initiative, a program of the Louisiana Cancer Research Center
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In Vietnam, China and Malaysia, more than one in every five deaths is smoking-related