Cigarettes Are 95% Less Harmful Than Smoking According To New Research

Rosanna O’Connor, director of alcohol, drugs and tobacco at Public Health England, said: ‘The danger comes because many smokers who have not tried e-cigarettes say they are afraid they are too risky. they keep smoking because they wrongly believe the alternative is worse’. The review could prove quite beneficial for the supporters of e-cigarette advocates, who already term it as a tool for adults to quit smoking.

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

Vaping is less common than traditional smoking, with an estimated 2.6 million people in Britain using electronic cigarettes. In all the devices, liquid nicotine or other products in a cartridge are heated, become vapor, and are inhaled. The current best estimate is that e-cigarette use is around 95% less harmful than smoking.

Tobacco companies such as Philip Morris worldwide and British American Tobacco (BAT) have viewed e-cigarettes as a solution to declining sales in Britain and the United States and have bought makers of the metal devices.

Finally, University of Michigan School of Public Health dean Ken Warner makes it pretty simple: “Smokeless tobacco is, without a question of a doubt, far less harmful than cigarette smoking”.

A new study has highlighted that e-cigarette use increases the risk of smoking conventional cigarettes in teenagers.

The researchers found that e-cigarette users (222 students) were more likely to report use of any combustible tobacco product at the six-month follow-up (31 percent vs 8 percent) and at the 12-month follow-up (25 percent vs nine percent).

The AHA in a first of its kind policy statement recommended a federal ban on e-cigarettes for minors. This attitude was described as raising “concerns that increasing numbers of people think e-cigarettes are equally or more harmful than smoking”.

Public Health England (PHE) said the figure was based on a new independent review by experts. So, cigarette smoking continues to decline in the country. Illnesses caused by smoking cost the NHS billions every year so being able to prescribe something safe which has helped many people quit must be a positive step.