Vaping Is 95% Less Harmful Than Smoking

Nearly all of the 2.6 million British adults using e-cigarettes are current or ex-smokers who say they are using the devices to help them quit, according to the study.

Global Positioning System and other health service providers are now able to prescribe several different stop-smoking treatments, including patches, but they are not allowed to prescribe or even recommend e-cigarettes as none of the products on the market are licensed for medicinal use.

Researchers said e-cigarettes are equally or more harmful than smoking and it serve as a “gateway” to tobacco for young people.

“It just shows that [teenagers] who are attracted to e-cigarettes are the same people who are attracted to smoking”, added Hajek, one of the authors of the PEH study when speaking to The Guardian.

The study was published by Public Health England and is a review of the available evidence on e-cigarette use.

“While unlikely to be completely harmless, we can be confident that any smoker switching entirely to e-cigarettes will enjoy significant health benefits”.

Cigarettes are known to be injurious to health, but people who are addicted for smoking doesn’t care.

With the different findings, University of Sydney professor of Public Health Simon Chapman said the conflict between JAMA and Public Health England studies could be because “different things could be happening in different countries”.

Public Health England has said the electronic devices could be a “game-changer” in Britain’s battle against smoking and doctors should offer them as an effective quitting aid.

An independent review has estimated e-cigarettes are at least 95 per cent less harmful than smoking tobacco.

There is also a fear that the widespread use of e-cigarettes will normalise the consumption of nicotine, undoing the social changes which resulted from the smoking ban.

Smokers in the North East are leading the way in using e-cigarettes to quit their habits.

PHA points out that smoking tobacco is very harmful to health and remains the single biggest cause of early death in Northern Ireland with a typical smoker dying 10-15 years earlier than they would do if they didn’t smoke. But one of the key challenges the report identifies are widespread misperceptions about the safety of e-cigarettes.

The report also found no evidence so far that e-cigarettes are acting as a route into smoking for children or non-smokers.