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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...

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.

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.

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.

Teenagers who use e-cigarettes are more likely than others to later smoke cigarettes and use other tobacco products, The Associated Press reports. However we still have concerns about the impact on the population of e-cigarettes and support the need for better regulation and...

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute in California have been carrying out promising research on a bacterial enzyme that reportedly “eats nicotine like Pac-Man”, according to Medical News Today.