{"id":1272,"date":"2014-09-10T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T10:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2016-08-04T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T14:35:39","slug":"to-e-smoke-or-not-to-e-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/current-debate\/to-e-smoke-or-not-to-e-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"To e-smoke or not to e-smoke? Join the debate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>To e-smoke or not to e-smoke: is that a question?<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shakespeartt.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1274\" src=\"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/shakespeartt.png\" alt=\"shakespeartt\" width=\"475\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/09\/shakespeartt.png 865w, http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/09\/shakespeartt-300x205.png 300w, http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/09\/shakespeartt-768x524.png 768w, http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2014\/09\/shakespeartt-160x110.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With this title our Editor in Chief, <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00038-014-0598-y\">Nino K\u00fcnzli, introduces and places in context two invited commentaries <\/a>on e-cigarettes. Both these commentaries come from independent Public Health scientists, who express different views on the subject. <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00038-014-0597-z\">Flahault and Etter explain why the think e-cigarettes are saving lives<\/a>, while <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00038-014-0589-z\">Mckee advices to proceed with great caution.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both these commentaries, as well as the accompanying Editorial are available <strong>open access<\/strong> (download them free of charge <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00038-014-0598-y\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00038-014-0589-z\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00038-014-0597-z\">here<\/a>), so that all our readers can read arguments from both sides and reach their own conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>We very much welcome your feedback and we look forward to a fruitful debate!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*picture created by combining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tonynetone\/2688212829\/in\/photolist-56xN24-dj9bnc-6xDEc5-LucEx-nyPb6n-6xDGSA-GP51q-79ZDed-caLjNd-7TGueh-8pgGCw-bB37xS-8zx7ut-8zx8dV-h199H-8PYE5e-fd6znn-8yNzbJ-8zAiQJ-4ukmsy-h19gF-h19k9-h19dG-fAAzh4-h19vj-FDo5y-8AGoVZ-h19rW-h196V-oiiFuq-o3QNoq-okkKXr-o3S4vB-o3R67A-o3QJAA-okjdid-o3QHKu-okjfbG-o3RwWv-o3SaX4-o3QEg3-o3SENv-okmcY4-ok8P8s-on7588-ok8EKW-okkDUz-oij3iQ-o3SkTg-okkmDT\">this <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ozontw\/13363430174\/in\/photolist-hyfVpx-fADLWp-fADLWx-fADLKX-mmT5dw-hyg7fw-iiKZ6W-mHugCX-iiL5PQ-iiMqfR-nvnGrk-nTf3gt-iiMZwi-nZENU5-iiMbfr-iiN7D7-hyh7pf-iiNr4a-e3hSUq-jB8vPB-iiLMt4-ekf6SJ-iiMdYU-iiLzTi-aDy96z-nvbemA-nyt7Aq-gVFs9c-o1vXDw-nXAdNE-aGnjzk-iiLC38-nLeuLw-9xqsS4-k6VEhD-eb4HWg-hqWnQs-aphWJ3-aphVjj-nr1Muy-n9sY4Q-jBbxGQ-iiLBKX-eeBCpF-oono3r-eVyagz-8QMT5i-eppvxV-oYQmxN-eqp1NG%20\">this <\/a>under creative commons lincence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">&nbsp; To e-smoke or not to e-smoke: is that a question? &nbsp; With this title our Editor in Chief, Nino K\u00fcnzli, introduces and places in context two invited commentaries on e-cigarettes. Both these commentaries come from independent Public Health scientists, who express different views on the subject. Flahault and Etter explain why the think e-cigarettes&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/current-debate\/to-e-smoke-or-not-to-e-smoke\/\" title=\"Read To e-smoke or not to e-smoke? Join the debate!\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":1274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8,10,11],"tags":[240,283,306,501,554,801,896],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-debate","category-food-for-thought","category-from-the-editors","category-hot-off-the-press","category-international-journal-of-public-health","tag-e-cigarettes","tag-etter","tag-flauhault","tag-kunzli","tag-mckee","tag-smoking","tag-tobacco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}