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The evidence on vaping products indicates they carry much less risk than smoking cigarettes but are not risk free. Evidence is growing that vaping can help people to quit smoking. There is no international evidence that vaping products are undermining the long-term decline in cigarette smoking among adults and youth, and may in fact be ...
The degree of relative safety of the same amount of use of electronic versus conventional cigarettes is disputed. 2015 [51] and 2018 Public Health England (PHE) reports claimed that vaping is "at least 95% less harmful than smoking", while pointing out that this does not mean vaping is safe. [52]
[4] E-cigarettes could also be used as a tool to get around policies against smoking by people who have a nicotine dependence that are less willing to give up cigarette smoking. [20] Older adults are vaping as a way to give up smoking or to get around smoke-free bans, [179] and they believe the marketing of such products makes smoking normal ...
Vaping and smoking in playgrounds and outside schools could be banned, the Health Secretary has said, although the Government has rowed back on making it illegal to smoke in pub beer gardens.
Critics of vaping bans state that vaping is a much safer alternative to smoking tobacco products and that vaping bans incentivize people to return to smoking cigarettes. [329] For example, critics cite the British Journal of Family Medicine in August 2015 which stated, "E-cigarettes are 95% safer than traditional smoking."
Along the same line, another study found [305] that e-cigarette minimum legal purchase age laws increase cigarette use among 12 to 17 years old, suggesting that e-cigarettes are displacing youth smoking rather than acting as a gateway to youth smoking. Regarding indoor vaping regulations, one study [306] found that it increased prenatal smoking ...
Since vaping hit the market roughly 20 years ago, research has been mixed on whether the electronic devices, which are especially popular among teens and 20-somethings, can be a helpful tool in ...
A ban on vapes must be as strong as the one proposed for smoking, the Children’s Commissioner for England has said. Dame Rachel de Souza said “we need shop fronts cleared” of vapes and that ...