Science

Below you will find the list of articles concerning studies relating directly or indirectly to e-cigarettes: their use, users, efficacy, or their absolute or relative toxicity compared to smoked tobacco. There are currently hundreds of studies on e-cigarettes, and all concede almost without exception that it helps reduce risks for tobacco smokers.

In our beginner’s guide, we provide a summary of the key things that you need to know if you are wondering about the health effects of vaping. For further detail, all of our articles on the scientific aspects of e-cigarettes are available below.

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Key points in relation to studies

E-cigarettes are a means to reduce risks for smokers. They are not completely risk-free. The Department of Health in the UK is of the view that they help reduce the risks of smoked tobacco by approximately 95%.
A recent analyze from The Cochrane organisation also found that vaping is the most effective way to quit smoking.

How is vaping 95% safer than smoking?

In 2015, Public Health England (PHE) had officially declared that "vaping is at least 95% safer than smoking". A statement which the health organisation...

Latest science articles

The Cost of Bad Science: How Flawed Studies And Anti-Nicotine Bias Are Shaping European Tobacco Policy

Science is often described as a self-correcting enterprise, a system in which weak evidence is challenged, errors are exposed, and truth gradually rises to...

Oral Lesions, Uptake Data, and Regulation: The Missing Conversation on Nicotine Pouches

As smoking rates continue to fall unevenly across the world, public health authorities are once again reassessing how nicotine should be regulated. In the...

The Persistent Myth of a Youth Vaping Epidemic, and the Cost of Overreaction

Youth vaping (substance use in general) is of course an issue that deserves serious attention, careful evidence, and proportionate responses. Yet time and again,...

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