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Proportion of British adults vaping at its highest level, analysis finds
The proportion of adults who use e-cigarettes in Britain is at its highest level, according to new figures.
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The proportion of adults who use e-cigarettes in Britain is at its highest level, according to new figures.
The percentage of smokers who are using vapes as well as smoking cigarettes has also nearly doubled in the past three years, while ex-smokers who turn to e-cigarettes to quit are using them for longer.
Experts said that vaping is less harmful than smoking cigarettes but is “not risk free” and should be used only as an aid to quit.
The Smokefree GB analysis, conducted by Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) and based on data collected by YouGov for the public health charity, estimates 11% of the adult population in Britain vape, the equivalent of 5.6 million people and the highest rate ever.
The proportion of smokers who currently vape increased from 17% in 2021 to 32% in 2024, the equivalent of 2.2 million people.
Among all former smokers – including those who still vape or no longer vape – the median length of time spent using e-cigarettes is two years.
However, in the last three years, Ash found more than half of current vapers who are ex-smokers had been vaping for more than three years.
This is compared with 18% in 2017 when the question was first asked as part of the analysis.
Hazel Cheeseman, deputy chief executive of Ash, said: “Smoking is still the country’s biggest preventable killer and vaping is one of many tools needed to help smokers quit if we are to create a smokefree country for current as well as future generations.”
Professor Sanjay Agrawal, the Royal College of Physicians’ special adviser on tobacco and a consultant in respiratory and critical care medicine at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, added: “In the last few years almost all the patients I see who manage to quit smoking do so through vaping and without it I fear many of them would not have.
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