A year later, Public Health England affirmed in their report on vaping that there was no evidence to contradict this figure, and started using it broadly
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So, the "95% safer" figure is: a) based on the lowest quality of evidence b) NOT about individual harms c) a bit outdated d) doesn't put vaping at the top anyway
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To sum up: vaping is almost certainly better for your health than smoking cigarettes How much? No one really knows What we do know is that the "95% safer" figure is both wildly misleading and not based on good evidence
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Even based on the original study providing the 95% safer figure, cigars score almost as well as vaping! It is an interesting hypothesis, nothing more
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Vaping is less bad for you than smoking cigarettes. How big this difference is is very hotly debated. Is vaping harmless? Is it like comparing Coke to Diet Coke? Is it like comparing Coke to fruit juice? We just aren't really sure what the answer is yet
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P.S. Several people have raised this as an issue, so I'll add on - VAPING IS DEFINITELY SAFER THAN SMOKING The question is how much, how you quantify that, and how we actually got the 95% figure
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P.P.S Yes, I'm aware that there has been further research on vaping (including systematic reviews etc). The point is that this research is mostly preliminary, and the 95% figure was essentially taken for convenience's sake as the best guess. Except, it wasn't really a great guess
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They are trying real hard to discredit
#ecigs. Imagine if the same lack of support was given to NRT, even cold turkey. Ah it’s no good, you’ll fail.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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What do you think the impact of people like chapman and Glantz with their very obvious bias and influence has on vaping outcome? Can you see why PHE might counter that when the benefits are so obvious? What are you trying to achieve? Keep people smoking?
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