The electronic cigarette is a great success with French people who want to quit smoking.
In 2017, it was already the most used smoking cessation tool in France: 700,000 smokers declared that it had helped them to quit since its marketing.
In 2020, 5.4% of adults declared vaping, including 4.3% daily.
However, the electronic cigarette continues to be debated.
For some like the WHO, it is dangerous for health and must be regulated
"to kill in the bud the tactics of the tobacco industry to recruit customers"
.
For others, like the Academy of Medicine, the electronic cigarette is much less dangerous than tobacco and must therefore be used to fight against this scourge.
A country like the United Kingdom even opened the way this fall to the prescription of electronic cigarettes in smoking cessation.
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