Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.
Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Nicotine Tob Res. 2022 Feb 14;24(3):421-424. doi: 10.1093/ntr/ntab164.
The electronic cigarette (ECIG) research community faces several challenges when it comes to regulatory science; not only is the ECIG market changing at a rapid pace, but the terms used by researchers, health organizations, ECIG users, and ECIG manufacturers/distributors to describe devices are inconsistent. These discrepancies make it difficult to advance science and develop regulations. Although researchers have used "generations" to categorize ECIG device types based on various characteristics, with the constantly evolving ECIG market, it is unclear where one "generation" of devices ends and the next begins.
当涉及到监管科学时，电子烟（ECIG）研究界面临着几个挑战；不仅 ECIG 市场变化迅速，而且研究人员、健康组织、ECIG 用户和 ECIG 制造商/分销商用来描述设备的术语也不一致。这些差异使得推进科学和制定法规变得困难。尽管研究人员已经根据各种特性使用“代”来对 ECIG 设备类型进行分类，但随着 ECIG 市场的不断发展，尚不清楚一个“代”设备何时结束，下一个“代”设备何时开始。
