Will e-cigarettes overtake tobacco?

[KulrMeStoopid]

http://www.metro.us/newyork/lifestyle/wellbeing/2013/11/13/will-e-cigarettes-overtake-tobacco/


E-cigarettes are almost completely free of health risks, and could save millions of lives, agreed health experts at a London summit to discuss the effects of the device.
E-cigarettes – which work by users inhaling vaporized nicotine – have enjoyed a surge of popularity since they were introduced around the turn of the decade, with around 7 million users in Europe. Nations have moved to crack down, but a growing movement claims they offer more benefits than risks.


“We can recommend that smokers who cannot quit should switch to e-cigarettes,” said leading researcher Dr. Konstantinos Farsalinos of the University Hospital Gathuisberg, Belgium. The risks were less than 1/1000th of smoking tobacco, he told Metro.
Dr. Farsalinos added that the devices were the most effective tools to quit smoking. “The best alternative before was around 20% [...] In my research up to 80% of participants using e-cigarettes have quit.” Medical journal The Lancet also found that e-cigarettes were more effective than Nicorette gum and patches.
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[Mark]

They have every potential of doing so so long as the ridiculous meddling stops


Consumption of e-cigs may overtake traditional cigarettes in the next decade … and they’ll only evolve and improve as time goes forward.

Bonnie Herzog, Wells Fargo Securities, 2013

 

[MrPT]

Its so nice to actually read a positive bit of press without it being full of negative connotations and paraphrases along the if but and when slide.

 

[capitanovapor]

I can't really say if e-cigs could overtake the traditional cigarettes but one thing is very clear: e-cigarettes will be more and more popular and the vaping community will hold a larger number of people every year.

 

[whit77]

taken from BBC news health

About 207,000 11 to 15-year-olds take up smoking every year in the UK, a charity has warned.

Cancer Research UK said government figures suggested 570 children smoked for the first time every day.

Results for smoking rates at each age group in 2011 were compared with smoking rates in the same group the year before and extrapolated to the UK population.

About 27% of all under-16s have tried smoking at least once - equivalent to one million children, the figures suggest.

And eight out of 10 adult smokers started before they turned 19.

The total number of children who started smoking was 50,000 higher than the 2010 figure of 157,000.

 

[clint]

I think at some point in the not to distant future, e cigs will dominate the market.

 

[capitanovapor]

I think at some point in the not to distant future, e cigs will dominate the market.

We all hope so