🚨 Great to see some expert opinion included in the reporting of this. Professor Peter Hajek, Director of the Health and Lifestyle Research Unit at Queen Mary University of London, described the review's conclusions as 'misleading'. "Misinforming smokers risks discouraging them from using e-cigarettes, which are one of the most effective methods that exist to help people stop smoking. Switching from #smoking to #vaping removes the major source of all smoking related diseases, including cancer.” Link in reply 👇

👉 Smokers, in particular, can remain reassured that vaping is far less harmful than smoking 👉 Misinforming smokers risks discouraging them from using e-cigarettes, which are one of the most effective methods that exist to help people stop smoking. Switching from smoking to #vaping removes the major source of all #smoking related diseases, including cancer 👉 This narrative review is problematic for several reasons and makes extraordinary claims that are not borne out by the data 👉 This could be misleading if presented to the public as providing evidence of an association between vaping and cancer 👉 It would require quite a stretch of the imagination to envisage how vaping compounds could match the cancer-causing effects of combustion smoking A comprehensive and justified critique of the the review which is causing alarmist and grossly misleading headlines today from Prof Peter Hajek, Prof John Britton, Prof Lion Shahab, and more. #scicomm Link in reply 👇