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    E-Cigarettes: Smoking Cessation Device or Big Tobacco’s New Frontier? Vapers Tell Their Stories in the Face of Pending Regulation by the United States Food and Drug Administration

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    Orr, Cathy
    Date
    2015-04-20

    Degree
    MA (Master of Arts), Medical Anthropology
    Copyright: Thesis/Dissertation © Cathy Orr, 2015

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    Abstract
    Electronic cigarettes provide an alternative to combustible tobacco. While clinical data about the health risks of e-cigarettes is limited, many vapers report improved wellbeing since switching from tobacco to these electronic devices. This thesis is a qualitative study that explores knowledge sharing and the use of e-cigarettes as a cessation device or harm reduction strategy. It also reveals the dynamics between power structures and individuals’ attitudes and behaviors that shape the production of knowledge required to make proactive, personal-health-related decisions. Examination of this issue contributes to the field of Critical Medical Anthropology by exploring e-cigarettes in historical context of tobacco use, the way e-cigarette users obtain and evaluate health risk information, tobacco corporations’ abuse of power, and distrust vapers feel for Big Tobacco and government.

    Keywords: electronic cigarettes, e-cigarettes, vaping, vapes, harm reduction
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10504/68419
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