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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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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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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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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So, the "95% safer" figure is: a) based on the lowest quality of evidence b) NOT about individual harms c) a bit outdated d) doesn't put vaping at the top anyway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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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
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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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Replying to @GidMK
From what I can tell from reading relatively harmless is better description.
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