Dr Muiris Houston agrees that e-cigarettes will ‘probably’ cause a lower disease burden than cigarettes — although no long-term data is yet available — and believes they may have a limited role to play in smoking cessation.
Dear Editor, Progress has been described as the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance, and it is a perennial process, often vividly illustrated in our emergency departments.
Dr Garrett FitzGerald recounts a meeting with the famed Dr Alfred Oberon Fagan-O’Toole, whose unique take on pain relief has won him many admirers in the nonsmoking, old-world, medical moral majority of Shakespearean enthusiasts.
By Gary Culliton.
Dr Ruairi Hanley is coming around to the idea that doctors should not automatically dismiss e-cigarettes, as they may yet have a role to play in the battle against tobacco.
Regulatory authorities should consider banning electronic cigarettes until safety concerns have been addressed, concludes research published online in Tobacco Control.
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