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Editorial
. 2017 Jan;112(1):6-7.
doi: 10.1111/add.13534. Epub 2016 Aug 23.

Reduced nicotine content cigarettes, e-cigarettes and the cigarette end game

Neal L Benowitz  1   2 , Eric C Donny  3 , Dorothy K Hatsukami  4
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Editorial

Reduced nicotine content cigarettes, e-cigarettes and the cigarette end game

Neal L Benowitz et al. Addiction. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

The reduced nicotine content cigarette and the emergence of non-combusted nicotine products like e-cigarettes should be viewed not as alternatives but as complementary components of regulatory interventions that could virtually end combusted tobacco use.

Keywords: Addiction; alternative nicotine delivery systems; cigarette end game; electronic cigarettes; nicotine; reduced nicotine cigarettes.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of interests

N.L.B. serves as a paid consultant to pharmaceutical companies that are developing or that market smoking cessation medications. He also has been a paid expert witness in litigation against tobacco companies, including on issues related to light cigarettes. The other authors have no competing interests to declare.

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