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2024-10-21 22:00:10 UTC - HELPFUL
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The article conflates the effects of smoking to that of nicotine. Nicotine by itself is no more harmful than caffeine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10883537/ https://www.rsph.org.uk/about-us/news/nicotine--no-more-harmful-to-health-than-caffeine-.html https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/quit-smoking/vaping-to-quit-smoking/vaping-myths-and-the-facts/ https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/e-cigarettes Nicotine is deemed an essential medicine by the WHO (page 56) https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/371090/WHO-MHP-HPS-EML-2023.02-eng.pdf E-cigarettes are less dependence forming than smoking https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0376871614019863 https://academic.oup.com/ntr/article-abstract/14/11/1382/1096943?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/add.15060 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4838001/ vaping = less harmfull https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nicotine-vaping-in-england-2022-evidence-update https://www.rcp.ac.uk/policy-and-campaigns/policy-documents/e-cigarettes-and-harm-reduction-an-evidence-review/
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