Most e-cigarette users are ex-smokers

According to vapingpost, a recent report released by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), an anti-smoking charity, shows that the number of e-cigarette users in the UK has reached 3.6 million, about the number of total smokers. half, which suggests that the majority of e-cigarette users are ex-smokers and that most switched to e-cigarettes in order not to smoke cigarettes.

ASH has been monitoring smoking and smoking trends since 2012, and its latest report shows that e-cigarette use helped an additional 70,000 people quit smoking in 2017. According to this data, the number of e-cigarette users in the UK has increased from 700,000 in 2012 to 3.6 million in 2019.

Among them: 54% of users have successfully quit cigarettes and switched to electronic cigarettes; 40% of users are still smoking cigarettes while using electronic cigarettes; 6% of users are not using either cigarettes now.

Professor Ann McNeill, who wrote a review of e-cigarettes for Public Health England (PHE), pointed out that it was important not to continue smoking cigarettes once e-cigarettes have been smoked. "It is important that all e-cigarette users stop using cigarettes completely or they still expose themselves to serious risks of smoking-induced disease and disability." McNeill added, "E-cigarettes are not risk-free, but the risks are much lower than Cigarettes, nearly 100,000 people die from cigarettes in the UK every year."

Meanwhile, PHE is reassuring vapers in the UK that they are concerned about vaping as a 33rd person tragically dies of a mysterious lung disease linked to the vaping of unlicensed THC and nicotine products in the US The smoke stance remains the same.

PHE: Smoking is not without risks, but safer than smoking

Consistent with McNeill's comments, the PHE tweet pointed to the importance of using equipment only for harm reduction. “Our advice on e-cigarettes remains the same – e-cigarettes are not completely risk-free, but they are far less harmful than smoking. In any case, e-cigarettes and cigarettes are not good for your health.”

In a tweet in support of PHE, the New Nicotine Alliance (NNA) also pointed out that as long as regulated products are used, there is no need to worry about the current outbreak of vaping lung disease in the United States "I think nicotine should not be blamed on these events, but from Liquid THC illegally sold by unregulated suppliers in the US, these 'drugs' are well regulated and cracked down in the UK, so the advice from Public Health England and the NNA remains the same."