Cigarettes are less harmful than traditional cigarettes

The BBC documentary “E-Cigarettes: Wonder or Threat” showed smoke analysis of conventional tobacco and e-cigarettes. The results showed that about 6,000 chemical compounds were produced when traditional cigarettes burned, and about 100 of them were harmful or potentially harmful. Scanning e-cigarette smoke using the same method showed that concentrations of each compound were drastically reduced.

The documentary says that while e-cigarettes are not completely safe, they are about 95 percent safer than traditional cigarettes.

Another experiment in the documentary exposed living cells of the respiratory system to cigarette smoke and e-cigarette smoke. The results showed that traditional cigarettes were devastating, with cells exposed to smoke only surviving 6 percent of the time.

The results of the e-cigarette experiment were surprising: 53 percent of the cells in the petri dish survived.

As a result, the British government, which has taken e-cigarettes seriously, believes that smokers who switch from cigarettes to e-cigarettes have significantly improved their health. E-cigarettes can play an important role in the government’s goal of achieving a smoke-free generation and greatly relieve the financial pressure on health care.

According to public Health England’s 2021 Evidence Update, e-cigarette products were the most commonly used aid for people trying to quit smoking in the UK in 2020, with 50,000 to 70,000 people using e-cigarettes each year.