Is vaping really as risky as smoking? Half of UK adults believe it is

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Is vaping really as risky as smoking?

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Half of UK adults believe it is.

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Research published by Action on Smoking and Health reveals that more than half of adult smokers across Britain hold the mistaken belief that e-cigarettes pose equal or greater health risks compared to traditional tobacco products.The 2026 Smokefree GB survey, conducted by YouGov with over 13,000 participants, found that 52 per cent of smokers consider vaping as dangerous as smoking, while 54 per cent of the general adult population share this view.This represents a dramatic shift in public perception.

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Ten years ago, merely a quarter of British adults held such beliefs about vaping's relative dangers."It's worrying that public perceptions of vaping are now so far out of step with the evidence," said Hazel Cheeseman, chief executive of Ash.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The misconception rises to 61 per cent among smokers who have never tried e-cigarettes.Professor Jamie Brown, director of the UCL Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group, described the situation as "a depressing state of...

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