We also found that these labels were better remembered and associated with a greater reduction in craving for cigarettes, said Langleben, the senior author of the study and a research fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center
The use of pack-years to assess the risk of developing COPD or some other lung diseases has been criticized for being a measure based on the assumption that both smoking intensity and duration are of equal importance.11,16,26 However, some authors argue that it should continue to be used because of its simplicity and because it is a measure that provides information on the cumulative amount of tobacco consumption.9,16,27,28 In this study, COPD risk increases linearly with the increase in pack/years, an aspect that also occurs in the nonparametric model
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It will provide a neutral forum for critically debating the emerging evidence and sometimes widely divergent perspectives on e-cigarettes, as well their implications for public policy