Evidence-based tobacco-control legislation on e-cigarettes is urgently needed

Affiliations

¹ Founding chair, The Global Coalition for Adolescents' Unique Tobacco Addictions Related Issues; research assistant, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
² Research assistant, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
³ Postdoctoral research fellow, Section of Trauma, Acute Care, and Global Surgery, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

Nilanga Aki Bandara et al. CMAJ. 2020.

. 2020 Jan 20;192(3):E74.

doi: 10.1503/cmaj.73819.

¹ Founding chair, The Global Coalition for Adolescents' Unique Tobacco Addictions Related Issues; research assistant, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
² Research assistant, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
³ Postdoctoral research fellow, Section of Trauma, Acute Care, and Global Surgery, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared

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