A survey recently ran by Spanish e-cigarette maker Puff Cigarettes, asked e-cigarette users if they had been able to completely quit smoking or to what degree they had helped in reducing their smoking. The result showed that 66% of e-cigarette users claimed having being able to quit smoking completely, while another 33% had reduced the amount of cigarettes they smoked with the help of electronic cigarettes.
The poll included 187 Spanish users of vaporizers and collected feedback on various perceived positive effects from each individual using e-cigs. For those who can read Spanish, you can head to the publication of the Puff Cigarettes survey here. The survey reported that 35% of the participants had better breathing capacity, about 8% had restored most of their sense of taste and 1 out of 10 felt less fatigue. Keeping in mind that a third of participants still smoked cigarettes, 70% reported having a significant improvement on their overall health and wellbeing.
With these results, 9 out 10 participants confirmed that they would recommend electronic cigarettes to friends and family as an alternative to smoking tobacco, while the rest remained cautious about freely advertising vaping to close ones. These results align with their neighboring friends in the UK, where a 5 year long study also concluded that e-cigarettes were efficient alternatives to smoking when used correctly. Along with those great news, UK citizen smokers now using electronic cigarettes tripled since 2010, helping reduce smoking rates nationwide.
Among the convincing evidence, a continual stream of questionable studies attempt to claim the exact opposite but when properly scrubbed, evident errors or loopholes are found to be used in order to skew the results in favor of banning electronic cigarettes somehow or someway. We rarely cover these studies but they remain important things to be aware of. Luckily, the global scientific community is active in refuting invalid studies and continually studying the real effects of electronic cigarettes in order to advance and improve the industry.
Even with the great efforts put behind the cause by groups of bright scientists whose jobs are to research and report valid studies, Spanish health authorities have taken steps against e-cigarette device usage by banning vaping in public spaces. The government has questioned and straight out judged electronic cigarettes dangerous to public health. We are unfortunately seeing a similar shift in Wales and Scotland, where local government is also attempting to ban public vaping and impose regulations in hopes to cause the market to retreat. Popular opinion claims authorities are working to protect the interests of pharmaceutical giants, already known to be part of the opposition against e-cigarettes.