E-cigarettes are not intended as an aid to smoking cessation and are only intended as an alternative to other tobacco products.
As randomized controlled experiments addressing the research questions are unavailable, naturalistic experiments comparing smoking in communities with restrictive e-cigarette use policies for youth (e.g., restrictions against sales to minors) compared with those with permissive youth policies (e.g., no sales restrictions) were considered to provide indirect evidence of the causal effect
Smoking while driving is not illegal in Iowa, but under certain circumstances, the driver could end up in trouble
Sosurprise!the legal squabble between government and industry played a role in delaying oversight, too
In this segment, increases are less uniform, but consistent with the realignment of excise duties on premium products, which already have significantly higher unit prices than standard cigarettes