2 Tobacco kills up to half of its users
Advertisements depicting vibrant, fun young people relaxing with their favorite product may be similar to cigarette marketing from decades past, but online platforms enable their messages to spread further and more quickly
He despises the only television in the village thats mostly tuned into hazy, disrupted telecasts of sports match replays and Sunday matinee movies, all of which mislead people with ideas of money, glory, and vanity
In 2015, PHE declared that the current best estimate [shows] using e-cigarettes is around 95% safer than smoking.[ii] In 2018, PHE reiterated this claim, finding vaping is at least 95% less harmful than smoking.[iii] A 2016 report from the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians concluded that the hazards from e-cigarettes were unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco.[iv] In 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report that found substantial evidence that completely switching from regular use of combustible cigarettes to e-cigarettes results in reduced short-term adverse health outcomes in several organ systems.[v] Most recently, in June 2019, the American Cancer Society (ACS) noted that e-cigarette use is likely to be significantly less harmful for adults than smoking regular cigarettes.[vi] The reduced harm of e-cigarettes is due to these products containing significantly less harmful ingredients than tobacco cigarettes
