USA cracks down on e-cigs, despite evidence showing their health benefits

Doctor is comparing conventional tobacco cigarettes and electronic vaporizer.

The United States is continuing to crack down on rules governing e-cigs, but one drug abuse researcher, Dr. Carrie Wade, says US lawmakers need to realize that vaping is a huge help in the fight to stop smoking.

“As a harm-reduction tool, e-cigarettes should be available, even promoted, to current smokers as an alternative to traditional cigarettes,” said Wade.

“History has proven that abstinence approaches do not work: Teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection rates did not decline in states that emphasized an abstinence-only sex education curriculum and criminalization of heroin use did not stop overdose deaths,” she added.

FDA figures estimate cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the US.

But this figure is now likely to be much lower in the UK, with research showing that for the first time in this European country, more than half of the country’s vapers have given up smoking tobacco since using e-cigs.

“This year’s ASH survey finds that around 1.5 million vapers are ex-smokers, for the first time a larger number than those who continue to smoke,” said Professor Ann McNeill, Professor of Tobacco Addiction at King’s College London.

“This is encouraging news as we know that vapers who continue to smoke continue to be exposed to cancer-causing substances. The message for the 1.3 million vapers who still smoke is that they need to go further and switch completely,” she said.

“It’s very important smokers realize that vaping is much, much less harmful than smoking,” added Deborah Arnott, Chief Executive of public health charity ASH

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