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Whether clinicians should routinely recommend electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) to patients who smoke is complex, particularly as evidence changes and grows, and a point/counterpoint discussion, where different points of views can be presented, is valuable.
Importantly, critics of our essay do not refute any of the four key issues that our recommendation is based: inadequate data on safety, stronger...
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By advising physicians not to recommend e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, this article is actually advising them to recommend that smokers who don't want to quit using FDA-approved methods should continue smoking, rather than trying to quit by switching to vaping.
This is a dangerous and misguided recommendation that is completely non-evidence-based and which is destructive to the health of patients by discou...
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The authors base their advice four main pillars, each of which is unreliable.
First, that we lack evidence of safety. We lack evidence of the complete safety of anything, including medicines, and notably those used in smoking cessation. What matters is the relative risk. We do have good evidence that e-cigarette vapour is much less hazardous than cigarette smoke [1]. Most of the hazardous agents in cigarette smoke are e...
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