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Lung cancer specialist physicians' attitudes towards e-cigarettes: A nationwide survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Despite a sharp increase in e-cigarette use, there is debate about whether e-cigarettes are a viable alternative for harm reduction, and the forms that regulation should take. Healthcare providers can be effective in offering guidance to patients and their families and shaping regulatory policy. We described lung cancer specialists' attitudes toward e-cigarettes and its regulation.

Methods

We undertook a nationwide survey of pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, medical and radiological oncologists who are members of Korean Association for Lung Cancer. Survey items included beliefs and attitudes toward e-cigarettes, attitudes toward e-cigarette regulation and preparedness on discussing e-cigarettes with their patients.

Results

Most respondents believed that e-cigarettes are not safer than conventional tobacco cigarettes (75.7%) or smokeless tobacco (83.2%), and feared that discussing e-cigarettes with the patients would encourage use (65.4%). They did not consider it a smoking cessation treatment (78.3%), and thus would not recommend it to smokers who do not want to quit (82.2%) or who failed to quit with conventional smoking cessation treatment (74.1%). Most respondents supported all examples of e-cigarette regulations, including the safety and quality check (97.8%), warning label (97.8%), advertisement ban (95.1%), restriction of flavoring (78.4%), minimum purchasing age (99.5%), and restriction of indoor use (94.6%). Most learned about e-cigarettes from media and advertisements, or conversation with patients rather than through professional scientific resources, and reported discomfort when discussing e-cigarette with patients.

Conclusion

Lung cancer specialist physicians in Korea doubt the safety of e-cigarette and use of e-cigarette as smoking cessation treatment, and supported strict regulation. However, only 20% reported that they obtained information on e-cigarettes from the scientific literature and many lacked adequate knowledge based on scientific evidence, suggesting the need for better preparedness. Nevertheless, the views of professionals revealed from our study could help to develop clinical guidelines and regulatory guidance.

SUBMITTER: Shin DW

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5325291 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Lung cancer specialist physicians' attitudes towards e-cigarettes: A nationwide survey.

Shin Dong Wook DW Kim Young Il YI Kim Seung Joon SJ Kim Jung Soo JS Chong SeMin S Park Young Sik YS Song Sang-Yun SY Lee Jin Han JH Ahn Hee Kyung HK Kim Eun Young EY Yang Sei Hoon SH Lee Myoung Kyu MK Cho Deog Gon DG Jang Tae Won TW Son Ji Woong JW Ryu Jeong-Seon JS Cho Moon-June MJ

PloS one 20170224 2

<h4>Objectives</h4>Despite a sharp increase in e-cigarette use, there is debate about whether e-cigarettes are a viable alternative for harm reduction, and the forms that regulation should take. Healthcare providers can be effective in offering guidance to patients and their families and shaping regulatory policy. We described lung cancer specialists' attitudes toward e-cigarettes and its regulation.<h4>Methods</h4>We undertook a nationwide survey of pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, medical an ...[more]

PMID: 28235068

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