Tobacco smokers could gain 86 million years of life if they switch to vaping, study finds

[Marc411]

"Up to 6.6 million cigarette smokers will live substantially longer if cigarette smoking is replaced by vaping over a ten-year period, calculates a research team led by investigators from Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center. In all, cigarette smokers who switch to e-cigarettes could live 86.7 million more years with policies that encourage cigarette smokers to switch completely to e-cigarettes".

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-10-years-life-smokers-e-cigarettes.html

Switch From Smoking to Vaping Could Save Over 6 Million U.S. Lives - Drugs.com MedNews

 

[VNeil]

What a difference a change in administration makes. Is the official position of the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and the American Lung Association still "vaping is worse than smoking"?

 

[r77r7r]

Wondering who bankrolled this research??

 

[LilWhiteClouder]

Wondering who bankrolled this research??

Medicalxpress article references this research paper:

Potential deaths averted in USA by replacing cigarettes with e-cigarettes | Tobacco Control

which concludes with:

• Funding: Funding was received by DTL, DBA, RM and RN from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, under grant R01DA036497. TRH and RM received funding from the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network (CISNET) of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI under grant UO1-CA97450. RB, MLG, RJO'C and DTL received funding from the National Cancer Institute under grant P01-CA200512.
  
  
• Competing interests MLG received a research grant from Pfizer and served as an advisory board member to Johnson & Johnson, manufacturers of smoking cessation medications. No other conflicts of interest are declared.
  
  Authors of research paper:
  
  1. David T Levy1,
  2. Ron Borland2,
  3. Eric N Lindblom3,
  4. Maciej L Goniewicz4,
  5. Rafael Meza5,
  6. Theodore R Holford6,
  7. Zhe Yuan7,
  8. Yuying Luo7,
  9. Richard J O’Connor4,
  10. Raymond Niaura8,
  11. David B Abrams1,8
      
  Author affiliations
  1. Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  2. Nigel Gray Distinguished Fellow in Cancer Prevention, VicHealth Centre for tobacco Control, The Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  3. O'Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  4. Department of Health Behavior, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Studies, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
  5. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  6. Department of Biostatistics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  7. Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
  8. Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies, Truth Initiative, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

 

[bobwho77]

Articles like this are good news.
Seeing them published in forums that until recently were leading the charge to demonize vaping (and vapers) is priceless

 

[oplholik]

Unfortunately this will mean nothing to the State governments that are taxing the crap out of ecigs.

 

[LilWhiteClouder]

Unfortunately this will mean nothing to the State governments that are taxing the crap out of ecigs.

Actually, they're probably happy to get this news... BCUZ they tax the crap outta ecigs. To them, that's "86.7 million more years" of tax revenue!

 

[Marc411]

Unfortunately this will mean nothing to the State governments that are taxing the crap out of ecigs.

Baby steps, first let them determine that it's safer and will save lives? Then the question will be asked why they are taxing something that is saving lives. Personally, I'm just happy that I don't smoke anymore and in Chicago they were killing us with taxes anyway.