UMMS Affiliation

Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences; Department of Surgery; UMass Worcester Prevention Research Center

Publication Date

2020-01-01

Document Type

Editorial

Disciplines

Health Policy | Public Health | Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance | Substance Abuse and Addiction

Abstract

An editorial by UMass Medical School public health experts calls for legislators and policymakers to take bold action on gun control, similar to the recent ban in Massachusetts on vaping products in response to lung illnesses in vaping device and e-cigarette users.

Keywords

public health, gun control, vaping, bans, epidemics

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Copyright © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal.

DOI of Published Version

10.1097/MLR.0000000000001251

Source

Goldberg RJ, Lapane K, Lemon S, Hirsh MP. The Smoking Gun: Can We Do for Gun Control What We Are Doing to Control the Vaping and E-Cigarettes Epidemic? Med Care. 2020 Jan;58(1):1-3. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001251. PubMed PMID: 31764480. Link to article on publisher's website

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Medical care

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Link to article in PubMed

PubMed ID

31764480

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
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