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Researchers of EPICENTER member think tanks have regularly addressed the regulatory framework for nicotine supplements all across Europe. A comparative analysis of European nicotine supplement regulations can be found attached.

According to the research, there is a growing consensus that vaping is at least 95 per cent safer than cigarette smoking (Royal College of Physicians 2016) and the overwhelming majority of people who use e-cigarettes regularly are current or former smokers. E-cigarettes are rarely used by young people who have not previously smoked (Bauld et al. 2017) and claims about vaping acting as a ‘gateway’ to smoking appear to be unfounded. In the EU, fewer than 0.5 per cent of those who have never smoked use e-cigarettes (Eurobarometer 2017: 105), but many smokers have used them as a permanent substitute for combustible cigarettes. In Britain, the smoking rate has fallen at an unusually fast pace since 2012 when e-cigarettes became mainstream consumer products after several years of stasis (Snowdon 2017).

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