The Debate Over E-cigarette Policymaking: Advocacy Coalitions to Oppose State and Local E-cigarette Policymaking Changed after Major Tobacco Companies Entered the Market

Big tobacco has become a major player in e-cigarette policymaking, especially at the state level, employing the same political tactics and allied groups they used to protect the cigarette market, says a new study in the September 2016 issue of The Milbank Quarterly. As with earlier efforts to restrict tobacco products, health advocates had the most success at the local rather than the state level, according to authors Elizabeth Cox, Rachel Ann Barry, and Stanton Glantz of the Center for Tobacco Control Research at the University of California, San Francisco.