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Not only are e-cigarettes less harmful, the products may be contributing to falling smoking rates among adults and young people, according to the review. He suggested that “local stop smoking services should look to support e-cigarette users in their journey to quitting...

The Alaska Dispatch News reports (http://bit.ly/1fusBcm ) that Alaska Division of Epidemiology bulletin released Thursday found that e-cigarette use rose from 1 percent in 2010 to 4 percent in 2013, the latest data available.

Practically all of the adults in Britain who are now using e-cigarettes are smokers who are using the devices to try to quit smoking, and only 2 percent of youths were regular users.

Councillors voted Thursday to prohibit smoking in city-owned parks and outdoor sporting facilities, and to include electronic cigarettes under the ban; council voted to treat e-cigs the same as conventional tobacco cigarettes.

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.

In a review of evidence, PHE found that nearly all of the 2.6m e-cigarette users in Britain are current or former smokers. As it stands Global Positioning System and stop smoking services aren’t able to recommend use of e-cigarettes because they haven’t been approved...