Anti-smoking advocates, like John Banzhaf with Action on Smoking and Health, are putting pressure on the FDA to ban the products in the U.S
We urge voters to help snuff it out and support Amendment 72." The Denver Post [19] said: "It would do so by increasing the tax on a pack of cigarettes from $.84 to $2.59
Research shows that nicotine in e-cigarettes increases the infiltration of inflammatory cells, including eosinophils, from the blood into the airways, stimulates the production of type 2 inflammatory cytokines such as IL-4, IL-5, and IL-13, and promotes mucin secretion, exacerbating airway inflammation and hyperresponsiveness, ultimately worsening asthma [66, 67]
At the same time, the proportion of adults using HTPs increased from about 1.9% in 2016 to 5.2% in 2023