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The findings of a new observational study suggests that times are changing for cigarette smokers in the US, with people who use e-cigarettes now more likely to quit smoking combustible cigarettes than non-vapers. Vaping is controversial, with opponents saying use should not be promoted as a quit smoking technique, while others say e-cigarettes can help […]

Encouraging young people to think about their actions, might be the most effective way to communicate the dangers of e-cigarette use. With vaping on the rise among young people, researchers are turning their minds to effective public messaging about the harms. Dr Joshua Trigg, a senior research fellow at Flinders University, says it’s important to […]

Smoking cigarettes has known life-threatening health risks from lung cancer to throat cancer. Now, a growing number of people are taking up e-cigarettes, or vapes. Is vaping less harmful than smoking? Or are we seeing the beginnings of a trend which might reveal negative effects in the decades to come? The Cosmos team recently launched […]

We know that cigarettes are bad for our health. But now they’re old news – it’s now flavoured puffs of white smoke that are on our minds. Is vaping an alternative to smoking without the nasty health effects? In the fourth season of ‘Debunks’, the new podcast series from the Cosmos newsroom team and Nine […]