Dear Evelyn, (Evelyn Eisenstein, Brazil)
You said: "completely agree with Dr Joseph Ana There are NO pros for vaping, none indeed"
https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/tobacco-76-q5-what-are-pros-and-cons-va...
Could we explore this a little more?
Sian Williams (UK) noted: "The latest Cochrane from 2022... concluded "There is high‐certainty evidence that ECs with nicotine increase quit rates compared to NRT and moderate‐certainty evidence that they increase quit rates compared to ECs without nicotine." https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010216.pub7/...
If vaping can help people quit from smoking, this is surely a very important 'pro'?
There are lots of other questions about pros and cons, of course. There is great concern about the 'skyrocketing' takeup of vaping by adolescents, and the fact that this often leads to smoking of cigarettes. It's unclear, however, whether the availability of vaping reduces or increases uptake of cumbustible cigarettes at a population level. Can anyone shed light on this?
Best wishes, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org
