Faq athra
The basics
Safety and health
Are e-cigarettes less harmful than smoking?
Is it fair to say that vaping is likely to be at least 95% lower risk than smoking?
Additional information on PubPeer
Is vaping harmful to bystanders?
Should public vaping be banned?
What about the unknown long-term risks?
But it took decades to find out that smoking was harmful
Don’t the recent US cases of severe lung injury prove that vaping is very harmful?
Does vaping cause popcorn lung?
Quitting Smoking
Does vaping help people quit smoking?
Youth vaping
Is there a ‘youth vaping epidemic’ in Australia?
Is there a youth vaping ‘epidemic’ in the US?
Is vaping a gateway to smoking?
Should flavours be banned to stop youth vaping?
Other issues
Is vaping being taken up by non-smokers?
Does vaping ‘renormalise’ smoking?
Isn’t most vaping ‘dual-use’ of e-cigarettes and cigarettes?
The tobacco industry
Regulation of vaping
How should vaping be regulated?
How should vaping products be taxed?