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Experts from the University College London (UCL) have tagged recent health warnings from the World Health Organization (WHO) over e-cigarettes “misleading”, saying instead that they have the potential to save tens of thousands of smokers every year.
The WHO had warned that bystanders can inhale significant levels of toxins from the vapour, thus acting as a gateway to tobacco smoking; but the London researchers said for every one million of British smokers who give up tobacco products and switch to e-cigarettes, more than 6,000 premature deaths could be prevented annually.
They estimated that would equal over 54,000 lives saved every year, if all of Britain’s nine million smokers were to switch.
