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Study assesses the effectiveness of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid

To assess the effectiveness of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation aid in reaching 12+ months of abstinence, the researchers compared the use of any e-cigarette product for a quit attempt with nothing ...
CNN

Using e-cigarettes to prevent smoking relapse doesn’t work well, study finds

Using e-cigarettes and other tobacco products to keep from relapsing to cigarettes doesn’t appear to be effective, according to a new longitudinal study of nearly 13,000 smokers in the United States. ...
SlashGear

Study Shows Vaping + Smoking Is Riskier Than E-Smoking Alone

A study from the University of California showed that splitting one's tobacco use between e-cigarettes and traditional cigarettes is more dangerous to one's health than full-time vaping. The obvious ...
CBS News

'No One Has Dropped Dead From Vapor': Local Vapor Advocates Respond To New Jersey's Proposed Ban Of All Electronic Smoking Devices

BURLINGTON COUNTY, N.J. (CBS) -- New Jersey's proposed ban on the selling of e-cigarettes prohibits the sale of vaping devices all together. A New Jersey lawmaker tells Eyewitness News that he is ...
The Lantern

Safe smoking alternative e-cigarette revealed as dangerous and addictive

It doesn’t take much searching to find someone using an e-cigarette on campus, but the devices that came on to the scene as a safe smoking alternative might actually be a fruity problem. According to ...

More Brits vaping than smoking for the first time

For the first time, the number of people who vape in Britain has surpassed those who smoke traditional cigarettes, new ...
Reason

New Study: Tax E-cigarettes, Increase Smoking

A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research examines the effects of Minnesota's decision to tax e-cigarettes like tobacco cigarettes. Here is the abstract: E-cigarettes use a battery ...
Reuters

Teens who try e-cigarettes more likely to start smoking

(Reuters Health) - Teens who try electronic cigarettes may be more than twice as likely to progress to traditional cigarettes as their peers who haven't used the devices, a recent U.S. study finds.
NPR

E-Cigarettes: The New Frontier In War On Smoking

Electronic cigarettes imported from China have grown in popularity during the past several years — and that has concerned federal regulators, in part, because so little is known about what is in them.

Vaping overtakes smoking for first time

The number of vapers overtook the number of smokers in 2024 for the first time, with one in 10 people aged 16 and over using ...
The Washington Post

Build Back Better’s e-cigarette tax will make people smoke more

One of the many goals of the Build Back Better plan is to improve the health of the public. Yet members of Congress have undermined that goal by including a tax on nonconventional nicotine products, ...