It’s a difficult balance to strike - reducing the appeal of vapes to young people while acknowledging their role in helping adult smokers to quit.
An answer for an increasing number of countries has been to ban all vape flavours except tobacco…
Flavoured vape bans in the U.S have led to an increase in smoking rates among young adults, a new study has found.
The study, published in the National Library of Medicine, looks at the impact restrictions to vape flavours such as fruit…
As a growing number of countries move to prohibit vaping, it could be easy to forget that smoking is a far more dangerous habit.
The World Health Organisation estimates that a colossal eight million people globally die from smoking every year. Half…
In the remaining three studies, vapes were found to be equally as effective as other methods or no treatment – and no studies concluded they were less successful.
The research, published in the journal BMC Health, shows that a higher proportion of smokers who used fruit or other flavoured vapes had quit cigarettes after six months (15.4 per cent) compared to those who used mint flavoured vapes (11.6 per cent).
Disposable vapes will be banned from June 1, 2025, in an attempt to reduce the appeal of vaping to young people. Under separate proposed legislation, flavours will also be heavily restricted.
The research, published in the scientific journal BMC Medicine and funded by Cancer Research UK, found that a rise in vaping over the last decade has largely been driven by people using vapes to quit smoking.
The research, published in the journal Scientific Reports, compared respiratory symptoms among adults who vape – but crucially, have never been regular smokers – with those who have never smoked or vaped.
The study from South Korea, published in the European Heart Journal, found that switching to vapes was equally as beneficial as quitting smoking entirely without using any alternatives.