The new consumer report of Blue Cave, reported on December 17. According to foreign news reports, since the British National Bureau of Statistics (ONS) revealed that electronic cigarettes have played an important role in reducing Britain's smoking rate to the lowest level of history, only a little more than a week. A new study was refuted by scientists.

Now, a new study published in the Magazine of Tobacco Control has been refuted by a group of influential scientists because it shows that electronic cigarettes cannot help smoke quit smoking.

This study sparked the title of the Daily Mail, "Studies have found that electronic cigarettes cannot help people quit ordinary cigarettes." Essence

The record of 4 million British people now use electronic cigarettes. The National Bureau of Statistics of the United Kingdom believes that the large -scale cigarette conversion rate has fallen to Britain's smoking rate to only 13.3% of its responsibility -this is the lowest record number since the record.

But a new study of George Washington University in the United States focuses on "dual users" -the people who smoke and absorb electronic cigarettes -analyzed data from 2013 to 2019 and concluded that before 2019, ENDS (Electronic (Electronic (Electronic The use of nicotine transportation systems) does not help realize substantial quit smoking at the population level.

Research authors said that their research results showed that reducing smoking can help dual users quit these two products, but critics said that the study had defects.

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Dr. Sarah Jackson, chief researcher at the University of London (UCL) Tobacco and Alcohol Research Group, said: The study did not evaluate whether electronic cigarettes would help smoking quit smoking.

"If we want to know if electronic cigarettes help people quit smoking, we need to study the difference between smoking quitting rates between smokers using electronic cigarettes and smoking non -electronic cigarettes."

"Other studies have done so, using observation and experimental research, and indicating that smokers trying to use electronic smoke quit smoking are more likely to succeed."

Professor John Britton, an honorary professor of epidemiology at the University of Nottingham: The design of this study chose people who are difficult to quit or want to quit smoking. In this case, the good news is that some people have done at least.

"What this study cannot tell us is that smokers who have become dual users have more successful quitting more successfully than smokers who have not become dual users."

"So the information of this paper is difficult to quit smoking, but the electronic cigarette may help you achieve it. It is wrong to say that electronic smoke can prevent you from quit smoking in the real world."

Mislead

Professor Peter Hayek, Director of the Research Department of Queen Mary of London, said: The conclusion that the electronic cigarettes have not contributed to the significant quit of the population level of electronic cigarettes cannot be concluded from the data.

"This study excludes e -cigarette users who quit smoking. They only pay attention to those who have not done this and become dual users. Although they choose those who have not fully benefited immediately, more than 25% of dual users later quit smoking later to quit smoking later It's. "

"Excluding smokers who use electronic cigarettes completely, and only evaluate the effects of quitting the smoking quitting of electronic cigarettes for those who become dual users. There is a serious method problem. Measted the remaining apples, and then announced that fertilization was effective. "

"Tobacco -controlled press releases are particularly misleading. It claims that dual use is harmful, but it is actually related to reducing smoking and later quitting, so it is actually beneficial. It also asserts that electronic smoke found that electronic smoke can not help help help Smokers are easier to quit smoking, and this paper does not make such a statement. "

Professor Robert West, an honorary professor of health psychology at the University of London, said: This research cannot solve the problem of whether the electronic cigarette helps or hinders smoking quitting in the population level, but this conclusion may be temporary Surprised to see a serious scientific journal made such a statement.

Mixed message

"Studies in a good population level found that people who use electronic cigarettes when trying to quit smoking are more likely to succeed, and over time, the increase in the use of electronic cigarettes in the crowd is related to the increase in smoking cessation rate."

"This confirms the very powerful evidence from random tests. In these experiments, smokers are randomly assigned to accept electronic cigarettes or nicotine patchs, gum and slices; these studies clearly show that electronic cigarettes are better."

"The news release claims that the data shows that the use of electronic cigarettes may not help the population sample quit smoking, which is particularly surprising, because people who use electronic cigarettes every day at the beginning of the study will be more likely to quit smoking in the next two years than non -daily users than daily users. . This is the opposite of the direction they seem to claim. "

Ukvia Director -General John Dunn said: No wonder the smokers are confused when facing such a mixed information.

"At the Electronic Tobacco Summit held recently, Rosanna O'Connor in the Office of Health and Differential Office told the representatives that they should not always believe the content they read, and I fully agree."

"When the same newspaper tells you how to help Britain to quit smoking in one day, but the next day, it may look funny, but there is a serious point here."

"The error message about electronic cigarettes prevents the smoker from converting electronic cigarettes, which in turn means that life will continue to be killed by fatal cigarettes."

"When the National Bureau of Statistics of the UK has enough confidence that electronic cigarettes play a main role in reducing British smoking rate, we can determine that this is true."

"If someone really doubts whether the electronic cigarette can really help people quit smoking, then they can ask any of the country's four million electronic cigarette users!"