Juul research paper: Cigarette sales in states that ban e-cigarettes are significantly higher than those without bans

On March 19th, according to foreign reports, JUUL electronic cigarette published an article saying that the reviewed study found that banning the use of electronic cigarette products may increase cigarette sales.
In the fall of 2019, several states announced temporary bans on the sale of vaping products—Massachusetts implemented a ban on all vaping products in September 2019.
Product bans, Rhode Island and Washington state imposed similar bans on non-tobacco-flavored vaping products in early October.
Juul's research team recently published a peer-reviewed study in the journal Health Value examining the potential consequences of state-level bans on vaping products to
and the corresponding impact on cigarette sales. The study assessed Massa using models based on these product bans, commercial data on cigarette sales, and various control variables.
How policies in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Washington may affect cigarette sales in those states.
The team found that a blanket ban on vaping products was associated with a 7.5% increase in cigarette sales in Massachusetts or an additional 1.7 million packs of cigarettes sold in the state.
In Washington and Rhode Island, they found that banning non-tobacco-flavored vaping products was associated with a 4.6% increase in cigarette sales, or about 1.7 million more packs sold
cigarette.
The graph depicts actual and estimated cigarette sales by the Common Synthesis Control approach in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Washington.
Ultimately, the researchers concluded that cigarette sales were significantly higher in states that banned vaping products than they would have been without the ban.
This study adds to real-world data and evidence on the impact of policies restricting vaping products and combustible cigarettes on adult smokers. specific and
This study suggests that policies that significantly restrict vaping products may prevent current adult smokers from switching and drive former adult smokers back to use
Combustible cigarettes, which remain the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and globally.
While all stakeholders in the e-cigarette category must continue to act to accelerate the reduction of underage use of all tobacco products, especially when restricting access
and limiting attractiveness, but all must work to ensure that such actions do not eliminate access to potentially less harmful alternative tobacco products for adult smokers.
Can To that end, Juul said it will continue to combat underage use by supporting evidence-based interventions, such as enhanced retail access controls, and
Aggressive enforcement of illegal sales and illegal products, which undermines the adult smoker category and harm reduction potential.
Juul said it also remains committed to the PMTA process and is working constructively with the FDA to further reduce the hazard potential of non-combustible alternatives, with
Time to build a more responsible market for the e-cigarette category.