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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.

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”.

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...