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Public Health England (PHE) has released a new film showing the devastating harms that come from smoking, and how this can be avoided by switching to an e-cigarette or using another type of quit aid.
The film has been released as part of PHE’s Health Harms campaign, which encourages smokers to attempt to quit this January, by demonstrating the personal harm to health from every single cigarette.
The film features smoking expert Dr Lion Shahab and Dr Rosemary Leonard, visually demonstrating the high levels of cancer-causing chemicals and tar inhaled by an average smoker over a month, compared to not smoking or using an e-cigarette.
The results of the demonstration visually illustrate the stark contrast between the impacts of smoking and vaping. Research estimates that while not risk-free, vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking.
Around 2.5 million adults are using e-cigarettes in England, and they have helped thousands of people successfully quit – but many smokers (44%) either believe that vaping is as harmful as smoking (22%) or don’t know that vaping poses much lower risks to health (22%).
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by GeminiDomino on Wednesday January 02 2019, @05:53AM
Have you read the actual study and sight some anomaly in their data or a methodology error? Or maybe a source where it was reproduced and came out with different results? Or did you only get as far as the funding disclosure before drawing that conclusion?
Pretty much any science (except maybe deep-range astronomy, but that may just be a lack of mercantile creativity on my part) is going to have a commercial interest if you follow the money far enough.
Dismissing it based only on who paid for it is as antithetical to "science" as made-to-order results.
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of our culture"