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King's College London. (2022) Nicotine vaping in England: 2022 evidence update. London: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities.

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This evidence review is the eighth in a series of independent reports on vaping originally commissioned by Public Health England and now by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities in the Department of Health and Social Care. This report was led by academics at King’s College London with a group of international collaborators and is the most comprehensive to date. Its main focus is a systematic review of the evidence on the health risks of nicotine vaping.

The report primarily looks at data on human exposure to vaping, complemented with findings from animal and cell studies. It provides the most robust evidence on health risks of vaping to date. It also assesses the relative risks of vaping compared with smoking, as well as the absolute risks of vaping compared with not vaping or smoking.

Based on the evidence that the team reviewed, the conclusions were that:

  • in the short and medium term, vaping poses a small fraction of the risks of smoking
  • vaping is not risk-free, particularly for people who have never smoked
  • evidence is mostly limited to short and medium term effects and studies assessing longer term vaping (for more than 12 months) are necessary
  • more standardised and consistent methodologies in future studies would improve interpretation of the evidence
Item Type
Report
Publication Type
International, Report
Drug Type
Tobacco / Nicotine
Intervention Type
Harm reduction
Date
September 2022
Publisher
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
Corporate Creators
King's College London
Place of Publication
London
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