Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the findings of the study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on 6 January 2020, what recent assessment he has made of the increased risk of stroke associated with vaping.
The study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on 6 January 2020 found that people who had used e-cigarettes only were at significantly lower risk of stroke than those who smoke. There was no significant difference in risk between non-smokers who use e-cigarettes and non-smokers who do not. The study can be found at the following link:
https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(19)30468-4/fulltext
Public Health England’s advice remains that smokers should stop smoking completely and that e-cigarettes can be helpful, particularly for the most heavily addicted smokers. This can be viewed at the following links:
https://www.nhs.uk/smokefree/help-and-advice/e-cigarettes
https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/for-your-body/quit-smoking/using-e-cigarettes-vapes-to-quit-smoking/
PHE keeps the peer reviewed research on e-cigarettes under continuous review.