Good News from the UK

[Vocalek]

News 2010

3% of smokers in UK (300,000) using nicotine e-cigarettes:

Three years after e-cigarettes were first sold in the UK, a national survey by Martin Dockrell of ASH UK, presented at Society for Research on Nicotine and tobacco at Bath UK in September 2010 shows 9% had tried the e-cigarette, and 3% were still using it when surveyed. If these 3% have all stopped smoking tobacco, then in New Zealand this would equate, based on 20% of adults smoking, to two years progress in NZ in reducing smoking prevalence at current rates of decline post-1990.

As half of those surveyed had not heard of e-cigarettes, and further tobacco taxes could increase pressures to quit, it is tempting to speculate whether e-cigarettes could lower cigarette sales by 10% within five years, equal to lowering smoking prevalence by two percentage points.

Some persistent e-cigarette users may also be smoking the odd tobacco cigarette. However reducing tobacco consumption 95% will benefit their health, and lower total cigarette consumption.

 

[rothenbj]

If those numbers translate to the US, we could be talking about 1.4m vapers in the US which would be incredible.

 

[Vocalek]

And it just could be true. Where can we get an honest poll conducted to see how many U.S. users there are, and how many of those have become former smokers?