Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the finding in the UCL report <i>Nicotine, Carcinogen, and Toxin Exposure in Long-Term E-Cigarette and Nicotine Replacement Therapy Users: A Cross-sectional Study </i>that vaping is much safer than smoking cigarettes and can help people switch from cigarette smoking.

The Government has been and continues to be clear that vaping is substantially less harmful than continuing to smoke, and that the best thing a smoker can do for their heath is to stop smoking completely. This study supports the Government’s policy approach, demonstrating that to reduce exposure to harmful chemicals significantly, those smokers who chose to vape should substitute smoking with vaping entirely.