The UK government website has published the latest independent report on e-cigarettes, "Nicotine e-cigarettes in England: an update to the evidence". The report, commissioned by Public Health England and co-led by academics at King's College London and a group of international collaborators, is the most comprehensive to date. Its main focus is a systematic review of the evidence on the health risks of nicotine e-cigarettes.

The report mentioned that e-cigarettes are still the most commonly used and most successful smoking cessation aids for British smokers, and their harm and addiction are far less than traditional cigarettes.

The report pointed out that in 2019, only 11% of areas in the UK provided smoking cessation services related to e-cigarettes to smokers, and this figure has increased to 40% in 2021. provide this service.

At the same time, only 5.2% of all people who tried to quit smoking between April 2020 and March 2021 used e-cigarettes under the recommendation of the government. However, the results show that the success rate of e-cigarette assisted smoking cessation is as high as 64.9%, ranking first among all smoking cessation methods. In other words, many smokers are actively choosing to use e-cigarettes to quit smoking.

In addition, the report also shows that in e-cigarette users, the biomarkers of toxicant exposure related to cancer, respiratory system and cardiovascular system diseases are significantly lower than those in cigarette users, further verifying the harm reduction potential of e-cigarettes.

The report was published by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID), formerly known as Public Health England (PHE). Since 2015, the British Ministry of Public Health has issued an evidence review report on e-cigarettes for eight consecutive years, providing an important reference for the formulation of tobacco control policies in the UK. As early as 2018, the department had emphasized in a report that e-cigarettes are at least 95% less harmful than cigarettes.

In addition, OHID also updated the smoking cessation guidelines for doctors in April this year, and pointed out in the chapter on smoking cessation assistance that "doctors should promote e-cigarettes to patients with smoking habits to help them quit smoking better."

The report calls for accurate communication of information about e-cigarettes in order to correct people's misunderstandings about them. Because the public's wrong perception of e-cigarettes will hinder them from using e-cigarettes to quit smoking. For example, when warning minors to stay away from e-cigarettes, these warning messages cannot be misleading adult smokers.

It is reported that this report is the last of this series of e-cigarette independent reports, which means that the existing evidence is sufficient to help the British government improve its tobacco control policy, and promote e-cigarettes more efficiently to help it achieve the goal of a smoke-free society by 2030.