Landmark study finds e-cigs 95% safer than smoking
The authors conclude that smokers who have tried other methods of quitting without success could be encouraged to switch to e-cigarettes. In addition to encouraging their use as a cessation tool, encouraging switching could help reduce smoking-related disease, death and health inequalities.
The authors also conclude there is no evidence that young people’s experimentation with e-cigarettes has led to increased smoking in this group.
There is still a great deal to be learned about e-cigarettes. But these findings are crucial, given the rise of inaccurate perceptions that e-cigarettes are as harmful as tobacco cigarettes. Adopting this advice could have a profound public health impact for the 42 million Americans who still smoke.
