reasons why people smoke cigarettes global Chart: Where Smoking Is Still Popular Smoking causes serious harm, but

E-cigarettes E-cigarettes have a much lower toxicity than traditional cigarettes, but they arent completely harm-free

If vaping is just as bad as cigarettes, then substituting one for the other would not be positive for public health, or for individuals who smoke

People trying to quit smoking

This review, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine in 2014, looked at 76 of the best available studies on e-cigarettes: "Due to many methodological problems, severe conflicts of interest, the relatively few and often small studies, the inconsistencies and contradictions in results, and the lack of long-term follow-up no firm conclusions can be drawn on the safety of [e-cigarettes]." The researchers also found that in 26 of the studies reviewed, the authors had declared a conflict of interest

She expressed concern that banning flavours might lead to people returning to cigarettes