American Consumer Institute Study: Tobacco Harm Reduction Can Save Millions Of Life-Years.

The Tobacco Reporter (3/11) reports a tobacco harm reduction strategy using e-cigarettes could extend the lives of “millions of consumers,” according to a new study by the American Consumer Institute, which reviewed “evidence from policy and health studies as well as the impact of legislative and regulatory decisions.” It states that “there is overwhelming evidence that e-cigarettes are far less harmful than combustible cigarettes; they constitute one of the most common and effective cessation aids available to smokers; some empirical evidence finds underage vaping by nonsmokers to be infrequent, which supports the correlation between the rise in vaping and the decline smoking…”