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Long-term smokers who switched to vaping were halfway towards achieving the vascular health of a non-smoker within a month, a study has found.

As the ninth person in the US has tragically lost his life to the mysterious lung disease which has been linked to vaping unlicensed THC and nicotine products, Public Health England (PHE) is reassuring e-cig users in the UK, that their stance on vaping remains unchanged.

New research found those who switched to vaping had reduced toxins and carcinogens in their bodies.

Swiss vendors will finally be able to sell e-liquid with nicotine to the country’s 60,000 vapers.

Despite the sometimes confused, and confusing, media reporting around the safety of e-cigarettes, there is growing consensus around the evidence. While not without some risk, when compared to smoking e-cigarettes are far less harmful.

Although not harmless, the evidence is unequivocal that vaping is much safer than smoking. But misinformation and scaremongering could still be putting people off switching.

Surveys of e-cigarette users (vapers) overwhelmingly demonstrate that almost all of them (even up to 99 percent) are smokers or former smokers. After surveying all the available science on health risks of vaping as compared to smoking, both Public Health England and the Royal College of Physicians have estimated that vaping is at least 95 percent safer than smoking.

Several Vaping and anti-smoking associations write letters to the Health Ministry in Spain, in response to the harsh regulations put forward by the government.

Dr. Ruairi Hanley on why doctors should prescribe vaping to smokers

Vape Shop Air Sampling by California State Health Department Suggests that Secondhand Vape Exposure is Minimal

Some studies, including one by the Royal College of Physicians, have claimed e-cigs and vaporizers are up to 95 percent less harmful than traditional cigarettes. The Royal College’s study on traditional cigarettes played a key role in the landmark 1964 surgeon general’s determination on the harmful effects of smoking.

The New Zealand Government announced today it will change the law to legalise the sale of nicotine e-cigarettes. Products will be legally sold at some point next year.

For vapers in the USA the news has been almost unrelentingly bad all year. There are signs that may be changing, however. A county court struck down a proposed new law that would have treated vaping as smoking, while a major think tank is attacking the idea of vape taxes. Meanwhile a business owner is suing Pennsylvania over its wide-ranging 40% tax. It’s too early to say a corner has been turned, but things look slightly better than in recent months.