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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 11 Jun 2018

      So, BY THE STUDY THAT THE FIGURE IS BASED ON, we are now down to "vaping is likely 60% safer than smoking cigarettes" But wait, there's more

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 11 Jun 2018

      If you look here, you'll notice that smoking cigarettes is the most harmful, but other forms of tobacco are MUCH lower This is because of the various fields that the group includedpic.twitter.com/Wzqe7WtIaY

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 11 Jun 2018

      So, again FROM THE STUDY THE 95% FIGURE CAME FROM, it's also possible to say that cigars are 85% safer than cigarettes. That chewing tobacco is 90% safer. That smoking a pipe is still 80% safer! This is ~clearly nonsense~

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 11 Jun 2018

      The point is that these figures are not about harms TO YOU. They are talking about harms more generally - fair for a public health organisation, but very misleading for individuals

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 11 Jun 2018

      It's also worth noting that, again BASED ON THIS STUDY, there are a number of options that are actually BETTER THAN VAPINGpic.twitter.com/TJCmjAa3GT

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 11 Jun 2018

      There's also emerging evidence that vaping might not be the silver bullet for smoking cessation many people want it to be i.e. https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/18240/3/Missing%20Elephant_in_room.pdf …

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 11 Jun 2018

      So, the "95% safer" figure is: a) based on the lowest quality of evidence b) NOT about individual harms c) a bit outdated d) doesn't put vaping at the top anyway

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 11 Jun 2018

      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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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 11 Jun 2018

      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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    10. Kent‏ @K_d_a7 11 Jun 2018
      Replying to @GidMK

      That is ridiculous, then you can say #ecigs are as harmful as the patch.

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 11 Jun 2018
      Replying to @K_d_a7

      Actually, technically you could say that ecigs are three times as dangerous as the patch and similar in risk to chewing tobacco but it's all a bit silly at that point really

      9:19 PM - 11 Jun 2018
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        2. Kent‏ @K_d_a7 11 Jun 2018
          Replying to @GidMK

          And cigars are 4 or 5 times #ecigs. It’s all silly.

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 11 Jun 2018
          Replying to @K_d_a7

          Pretty much. Even PHE says that the 95% figure is not a factual claim, rather a communication tool which honestly I find odd

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