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Has vaping reduced deaths from smoking? - Kevin Drum

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From a public health perspective, the benefit of vaping comes from cigarette smokers who use vaping as a way of quitting cigarettes. How many people does this include? It turns out that about 1.8% of adults are vapers who used to smoke. So not a lot but not nothing. A new study tries to quantify this in terms of mortality. It's extraordinarily complicated since, to begin with, "smoking-attributable mortality" is no easy thing to measure. The aut…

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Has vaping reduced deaths from smoking? - Kevin Drum

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Why Are Authorities Ignoring the Smoking Cessation Success Achieved by Vapes?

Numerous studies, as well as real world data, now confirm that rising vaping rates correlate with declining smoking rates in the United States, Canada, and across the globe. In the U.S., adult smoking fell from 14% in 2017 to 11.5% in 2021 (CDC), largely due to smokers switching to vapes. Similarly, in the UK, vaping […]

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