To Vape Or Not To Vape?

Studies show that vaping could be holding you back from quitting smoking.

21:26 13 January 2016

Doctors can now prescribe e-cigarettes after regulators granted license to one product for the first time. This undoubtedly contributed to the growing popularity of vaping, which has created a global market for e-cigarettes, now worth $6 billion. However, the technology remains controversial.

 

Proponents of e-cigarettes say that they have helped increase the number of people quitting smoking. However, some people say that vaping could be become more popular and socially accepted that even children might be drawn to it. Sceptics argue that this may then lead them to move on to conventional cigarettes.

 

Also, since smoking is now often subject to regulation and social pressure, some people combine the use of electronic and conventional cigarettes. For example, they may no longer smoke in their workplace so they switch to vaping for the meantime. But they still have the option to smoke regular cigarettes when they are at home or when there’s nobody to pressure them to do otherwise.

 

According to an online survey that was participated by 2,406 people in the US, 37per cent of smokers view e-cigarettes as JUST a complementary product to traditional cigarettes, rather than a substitute.