You may or may not be aware that e-cigarettes have become a huge success in the United Kingdom with vape stores in practically every town and village. The public in the UK has been exposed to vaping products as nicotine refills are widely available and this means that they have become aware of vaping and e-liquid, as well as educated to an extent about what it all entails and what the potential health implications are for smokers who switch. It is therefore very difficult for the government in the UK to manipulate the public because people have been informed about e-liquid and many have chosen e-cigarettes as a better way to satisfy their nicotine addiction. "The cat is now out of the bag", so to speak.
Research has shown e-cigarettes to be far less harmful than traditional tobacco cigarettes.
According to researchers at the University College London, warnings over e-cigarettes are "alarmist" and increasing the use of e-cigs could save many lives. Based on the team's research, more than 6,000 lives could be saved each year for every million smokers who switch to e-cigs.
A separate group of experts based in London referred to criticism of e-cigs as "misleading", the BBC reported.
Professor Robert West went on the record to say that one must "be a bit crazy to carry on smoking conventional cigarettes when there are e-cigarettes available". He added that vapour from e-cigs "contains nothing like the concentrations of carcinogens and toxins as cigarette smoke" and that the concentrations found in e-cig vapour "are almost all well below a twentieth of cigarettes".
