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Four in ten smokers believe vaping is as harmful
...the case. Almost two million people who smoke have never tried vaping, says ASH, despite it being a ‘very effective quitting aid’, while nearly three million have tried vaping and...
Government to close youth vaping ‘loophole’
...children illegally. The risks of vaping will also be included in Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RHSE) lessons, the government said, while OHID is also developing a vaping resource pack...
Igniting the debate
...on vaping was likely to push people back to cheaper tobacco and Australia was also cracking down on vaping. In England there were positive signs of free vaping kits being...
Recommend vaping to help people quit smoking, says NICE
...of smokers in the UK think that vaping is ‘as or more risky’ compared to smoking up from 27% last year. (Features, February 2023): The genie’s out of the bottle – embracing tobacco...
More young people vaping while fewer taking drugs
...However, while the number of young people smoking has fallen to 3 per cent, 9 per cent now report vaping, compared to 6 per cent in 2018. The rate of...
Disruptive force
...death and ill health caused by cigarettes – the potential of vaping products and snus was obvious and exciting to us,’ he says. The consumer interest and activism around vaping...
Soapbox
...national governance. Proposals for EU-wide regulation is a faraway promise whereby if any prohibition does emerge it will be after the ‘vaping’ market has been saturated and fully established and...
Slow on the draw
...devices were a poor substitute for smoking. Some of the smokers said that they did not like the hard plastic feel of e-cigarettes or the feeling that vaping was ‘cold’...
Sell e-cigarettes in hospitals, says PHE report
Vaping poses ‘only a small fraction’ of the risks of smoking, and NHS trusts should ensure that e-cigarettes and nicotine replacement therapies are available for sale in hospital shops, says...
Proportion of smokers falls to lowest ever level
...decrease in smoking rates may be partly explained by an increase in vaping and e-cigarette use, says ONS, with the highest vaping rates among 16 to 24-year-olds. While 6.4 per...
Free to breathe
...is easily justifiable if it results in a further reduction in smoking prevalence. Dr Neil McKeganey is director of the Centre for Substance Use Research, Glasgow Image taken from http://vaping360.com/what-is-vaping/...
In mind and body
...the rise and rise of vaping. E-cigarettes could, as some economists have predicted, overtake their deadly tobacco equivalents in less than ten years. However, the success of vaping in reducing...
Letters and comment
...around how harmful they are compared to normal cigarettes. This is despite PHE stating that vaping was 95 less harmful than smoking. McKeganey states that alongside confusion and dislike of...
Letters to the editor – March issue
...percentage of the recorded drop in tobacco smokers. Interestingly, the great majority of those who had switched to vaping were in treatment and identified as being in recovery. It seems...
Becoming visible: homelessness
...‘rather than just getting people on a script’, he said, such as offering vaping pens to replace the ‘crappy roll-ups’ that caused lung disease. With evidence being ignored on many...
A case for e-cigarettes
...used by people who want to stop smoking but who do not want to or cannot stop using nicotine. A visit to e-cigarettes and vaping websites indicates extraordinary testimony of...
SASSI Direct UK
...drugs and vaping, and does not rely exclusively on self-reporting to make the identification. SASSI Direct Ltd offers two-day CPD accredited courses (13 CPD points) in its administration, scoring, interpretation...
More needs to be done to help vulnerable people quit this Stoptober
...is that e-cigs are as harmful as smoking. However, whilst vaping is not risk free it is far less harmful than smoking. Using nicotine replacement therapies (NRT) or e-cigarettes makes...
Online casino spending highest in deprived areas
...document’s recommendations are more investment in high-quality support, making prevention ‘part of the NHS’s DNA’, promoting vaping, and increasing the age of sale by one year every year from the...
Potent cannabinoid use
...vaping technologies, and synthetic cannabinoids exploiting a gap in the market for an unregulated cheap ‘stone’ in the face of very expensive herbal cannabis. Butane hash oil (BHO, also known...
DDN February 2023
...to end the reign of the killer cigarette (p16). Will the combustible cling to power – or will vaping save the day? As always, we want your views! Read the...
Relax laws on e-cigarettes, urge MPs
...quit, but they could help many more. Licensed products could transform the public’s understanding of e-cigarettes and help many more smokers see vaping as a viable alternative to smoking.’ E-cigarettes...
Face to face
...poor etiquette observed – which has included people lying in bed during training, vaping mid meeting, or forgetting to mute microphones while holding unrelated conversations off camera. We also fail...
A chance to breathe: the case for e-cigarettes
...Nicotine in Warsaw in June – and had my eyes firmly opened. I got chatting to two people, both of whom were vaping. Eric, now in his late 60s, explained...