PHE: Smokers should switch to e-cigarettes

Reviti responds to recent IFoA findings

Adam Saville
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Public Health England (PHE) has today published its sixth independent e-cigarette report

PHE's advice remains that smokers should switch to e-cigarettes to help them quit smoking, but non-smokers should not take up vaping. Echoing findings in the recent ‘No Smoke Without Fire?' report from the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA), PHE goes on to say that evidence suggests e-cigarettes are less harmful than tobacco but are not completely safe.  The report also warned that UK smokers now wrongly believe nicotine-containing cigarettes are as dangerous as tobacco and this is putting them off switching. PHE believes a recent spate of deaths in the US related to toxic vap...

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