Brian King

The bottom line is that there's a variety of things in e-cigarette aerosols that could have implications for lung health.

The good news is that cigarette smoking has reached unprecedented lows, which is a tremendous public health win, down to 14 percent from over 40 percent in the mid-1960s.

It's critical that we not only modernize our strategies in terms of population but also modernize our interventions to be sure that we are capturing the full diversity of tobacco products that the American public are using.

When it comes to youth, we don’t want [them] to choose between an... by Brian King

When it comes to youth, we don’t want [them] to choose between an e-cigarette and a cigarette.

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The findings reinforce that secondhand smoke is still a problem in this country. Half of middle school and high school students are exposed to something we know is harmful to their health and is completely preventable.

We still have a far way to go in this country protecting people from secondhand smoke in public areas.

Currently there is about 4.6 million students who report using any form of tobacco, about 2.5 million of those are e-cigarette users.

No form of tobacco — whether it’s combustible, incombustible or electronic — is safe for youth to use.

Currently there is about 4.6 million students who report using any form of tobacco, about 2.5 million of those are e-cigarette users. Although e-cigarettes are.

No form of tobacco — whether it’s combustible, incombustible or electronic — is safe for youth to use, and that is primarily because we know nicotine can have adverse health effects on the developing adolescent brain. It can lead to addiction. And it could also lead to sustained forms of tobacco use.

Although we’ve seen declines in conventional products, like cigarettes and cigars, this increase among emerging products has ultimately resulted in no change in overall tobacco use.

These regulations can ultimately help to ensure that the landscape for these products is no longer the wild, wild West.

If not shot in the heart, the prisoner bleeds to death slowly. by Brian King

If not shot in the heart, the prisoner bleeds to death slowly.

Several people are doing it voluntarily, it actually doubled within the past decade, and about 83 percent of U.S. households voluntarily prohibit smoking in their homes.

There’s also some other ingredients that have been identified — things like volatile organic compounds as well as ultrafine particulates, including heavy metals, and so the contention that these products emit a harmless water vapor is simply not true.

We’ve made a lot of progress addressing youth access to these pro... by Brian King

We’ve made a lot of progress addressing youth access to these products.

We need to accelerate the magnitude of the decline. by Brian King

We need to accelerate the magnitude of the decline.