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Electronic Cigarettes: Health Hazards

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 160458, tabled on 7 March 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Government has made an assessment of the potential impact of vaping on people who do not smoke tobacco.

Answered on

13 March 2023

The Department has commissioned and published a series of evidence reviews on vaping which included an assessment on the impact of vaping on people that do not smoke tobacco. The final report of the series, Nicotine vaping in England published in September 2022, found that in the short and medium term, vaping poses a small fraction of the risks of smoking, but that vaping is not risk-free, particularly for people who have never smoked.

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