WASHINGTON— The scientific, academic and manufacturing communities gathered to discuss vaping and electronic cigarettes at the third annual E-Cigarette Summit, with at least four key areas of concern emerging as unsettled topics of debate, according to a tobacco analyst in attendance.
Held April 29 in Washington, D.C., the summit hosted 250 participants from the scientific, public health, legal, government, tobacco and consumer-advocacy communities and focused on regulatory and policy issues as they pertained to user health and concerns about youth initiation to tobacco, said Bonnie Herzog, managing director of consumer equity research for Wells Fargo Securities, New York.
In a recent newsletter, Herzog said presenters pulled from experiences in the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada to guide discussions, with most participants believing e-cigarettes fell onto the less-harmful side of the so-called continuum of risk with regard to tobacco use.
The conference identified four key areas of continuing debate …