Regulation of E-cigarettes

Edited by Lukasz Gruszczynski, Kozminski University, Poland and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

'E-cigarettes have radically complicated the landscape of public health aims, agendas, and strategies, especially given the context of the tobacco endgame. They bring multiple layers of scientific, as well as political and regulatory, complexity and disagreement. This carefully-curated volume brings competing voices and perspectives, and at once highlights a crucial variety of considerations at the core of agendas to promote governance for health, and underscores the challenges we find in reason and reasoning within an environment of polarisation and uncertainty.'--John Coggon, University of Bristol, UK'This unique book addresses one of the most important challenges facing the tobacco control community today. Should regulators treat e-cigarettes as a public health threat or rather as a chance to fully eradicate the tobacco epidemic? Gruszczynski's interdisciplinary volume provides a much-needed map that can help answer this question.'--Witold Zatonski, Health Promotion Foundation, Poland'This is a fascinating collection of chapters on the regulation of an uncertain, ambiguous and controversial topic. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in the multitude of perspectives on the topic of e-cigarettes and the law. The volume contains contributions from both advocates of more lenient regimes and contributions propagating a stricter regulation. In addition, it contains chapters from different regions, from the global level as well as from different legal fields.'--Wouter Werner, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands and University of Curacao, Curacao

• Contents:1. Introduction: Regulating e-cigarettes in the face of uncertaintyLukasz GruszczynskiPart I Science, regulation and e-cigarettes2. Divide and conquer? E-cigarettes as a disruptive technology in the history of tobacco controlMateusz Zatoński and Allan M. Brandt3. Review of the scientific evidence relating to electronic cigarettes: Where do we stand now?Charlie A. Smith, Aleksandra Herbeć and Lion ShahabPart II International and European law perspectives4. Taming the Schrödinger cat: E-cigarettes under the Framework Convention on Tobacco ControlLukasz Gruszczynski5. A human rights approach to the regulation of electronic cigarettesMarie Elske C. Gispen and Jacquelyn D. Veraldi6. A ban on Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems: Step one into the WTO discrimination analysisMarina Foltea and Bryan Mercurio7. Regulating e-cigarettes at the EU levelAnna Pudło and Lukasz Gruszczynski8. Vaping and the precautionary principle in EU lawGiancarlo A. Ferro and Costanza NicolosiPart III National law perspectives9. E-cigarette regulation in Taiwan and ChinaChuan-Feng Wu, Ching-Fu Lin and Mao-Wei Lo10. Regulation of e-cigarettes in US lawPatricia I. Kovacevic11. One does not simply sell e-cigarettes in Australia: An overview of Australian e-cigarette regulationsCoral Gartner and Marilyn BrombergIndex