To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people switching from cigarettes to e-cigarettes in each of the last three years.
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18 October 2016
The Department has not made an assessment of the number of people that have used e-cigarettes to quit or replace smoking in each of the last three years. Data from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) suggests in 2015 there were 2.6 million e-cigarette users of which nearly two out of five no longer smoked tobacco products.
ASH ‘Use of electronic cigarettes (vapourisers) among adults in Great Britain’, 2015:
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