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Health officials in Britain are now endorsing e-cigarettes as a way to quit smoking for the first time – saying they are 95-percent safer than tobacco equivalents.

It added: “Best estimates show e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful to your health than normal cigarettes, and when supported by a smoking cessation service, help most smokers to quit tobacco altogether”.

Chief executive of the British Dental Health Foundation, Dr Nigel Carter, said: “We are very happy that smoking rates in the UK are in a steady decline but more attention is needed to bring a stop to this deadly habit”.

Electronic cigarettes are 95 percent less harmful than smoking traditional cigarettes and have the potential to help smokers quit smoking, according to a report published on Wednesday by Britain’s Department of Health.