A group of internationally renowned experts on vaping carried out an all-inclusive review of the research evidence and discovered that fears over ecig use are unfounded. The team consisted of Dr Riccardo Polosa, a heart and lung specialist, as well as Professor Raymond Niaura, who has spoken at many conferences...
Professor Caitlin Notley, lead of the Addiction Research Group, argues that experts need to reconsider using the term ‘addiction’ when applied to nicotine. Her comments come following the release of a study looking at people’s understanding of “nicotine and addiction”, and she feels that it doesn’t reflect the actual day...
Smoking has a huge environmental impact; from the single use plastics to the toxic heavy metals leaching into the soil, there is no end to the damage tobacco causes. Switching to vaping is known to improve your health, as stated by researchers at University College London, but it is also...
It is often used as an argument against liberating the vape market, but do electronic cigarettes inevitably lead teens into subsequent smoking (commonly known as the gateway effect)? Latest research conducted by Doctors Ruoyan Sun, David Mendez, and Kenneth Warner says it doesn’t result in young people taking up cigarette...
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has released updated advice for the National Health Service and quit smoking centres on the use of ecigs. The document has been welcomed by Louise Ross as “a welcome breath of fresh air”; Louise used to run Leicester’s quit smoking service and...
