E-Cigarettes May Help More Than They Hurt
Although deemed a gateway to tobacco and risky in its own right, vaping will prompt more smokers to quit or cut down, a study says.
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The world may be better off with e-cigarettes than without them. Sort of.
Although a slew of studies have found the device serves as a gateway to cigarette use, such concerns may be exaggerated, according to a new study. Researchers in the U.S., Australia, and Canada have devised a model showing that, among people born after 1996, the option of using e-cigarettes may end up triggering a 21 percent reduction in smoking-attributable deaths and a 20 percent decrease in life-years lost.