Are e-cigarettes at least 95% safer than smoking?

There is now a clear trend of more and more people joining the vaping march but not smoking when they want to satisfy their nicotine cravings. The reason is obvious - in 2015, Public Health England (PHE) officially declared that "e-cigarettes are at least 95% safer than smoking".

An expert independent review of evidence published by Public Health England (PHE) concluded that e-cigarettes are significantly less harmful to health than tobacco and have the potential to help smokers quit.

Key findings of the review include:

The best current estimates are that e-cigarettes are about 95% less harmful than smoking
Nearly half (44.8%) do not know that e-cigarettes are much less harmful than smoking
So far, there is no evidence that e-cigarettes are a route to smoking for children or non-smokers
Based on the details provided by the FDA, it said: "However, different tobacco products pose different levels of health risk to users. Combustible products that burn tobacco, such as cigarettes, pose the greatest risk to users' health, while non-combustible e-cigarettes pose the greatest risk to users' health. may be less harmful. However, no tobacco product is considered safe.

Cigarettes are responsible for the vast majority of tobacco-related illness and death in the United States. Smokers are exposed to a toxic mix of more than 7,000 chemicals. These include at least 69 carcinogens such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, n-nitrosamines, aromatic amines, aldehydes, volatile organic compounds and metal elements. When they inhale cigarette smoke, the consequences threaten their health in a number of ways. "E-cigarettes can also cause side effects, including shortness of breath, nausea, dry mouth and chest pain.