Leading tobacco control say a Daily Mail article claiming that vapes have a “devastating health impact” on young people is “misleading by design”.
Menthol-flavoured HTPs are twice as effective at replacing cigarettes as regular tobacco flavour, according to new research.
Vapes cut toxic chemical exposure by up to 98 per cent, including major carcinogens
Heated tobacco products (HTPs) reduce harmful substances by up to 91 per cent
Some emissions in vapes and HTPs fall below detectable limits
Alternatives are not harmless, but…
Flavour bans led to drops in vaping among young adults and adults over 25
Youth vape use declined faster in states with bans
But youth and young adult smoking rates fell more slowly in those states compared to those without bans
Researchers…
Public health messages warning of the dangers of vaping may be contributing to a growing misperception that vapes are just as harmful as smoking, a new King’s College London review has said.
Published in Addiction, the systematic review examined 85 studies assessing…
Flavor bans for vaping are associated with increased cigarette use and black-market activity, including the risk of youth access and reduced consumer safety, according to a new policy paper from the Tholos Foundation. The report draws on a combination of academic literature,…
Adult vaping rates have stalled at 10 per cent, while smoking remains unchanged at 13 per cent
More than half (56 per cent) of adults now wrongly believe vaping is as or more harmful than smoking
Teen vaping has plateaued, but youth…
Smokers given flavoured vapes were three times more likely to quit than those using gum or lozenges
Nearly one in three vape users stayed smoke-free after six months, versus one in 10 using nicotine replacement therapy (NRT)
Fewer side effects were reported…
In a revelation that has stunned public health observers, pregnant women in a government-funded U.S. clinical trial are being given free cigarettes and explicitly instructed to continue smoking as part of research intended to support a federal nicotine reduction mandate.
The trial,…