Vaping may actually prolong smoking

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Researchers say that studies could be missing the mark on how many smokers quit by using vapes. They studied more than 6,000 US smokers, with their unadjusted data appearing to favour the daily use of e-cigarettes in quitting tobacco. However, when they took into account major confounding factors like interest in quitting, income, and presence of a smoke-free home, they found that vaping was actually associated with reduced tobacco abstinence.

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conference: JAMA Network Open

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Organisation/s: University of California - San Diego, USA

Funder: This project was supported by the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program of the University of California, Office of the President (grant Nos. T31IR-1584 to Dr rinidad and T32IR-4988 to Drs McMenamin and Pierce).

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