According to the latest research from University College London, e-cigarettes helped at least 50,000 British smokers to quit smoking in 2017. The study author Jamie Brown, a researcher at University College London, pointed out that the UK has found a reasonable balance between e-cigarette regulation and promotion.

The study, recently published in the internationally renowned academic journal ADDICTION, analyzed the impact of e-cigarettes on smoking cessation activities in the UK from 2006 to 2017, based on a follow-up survey of 50,498 smokers. The results of the study found that since 2011, with the increase in the use of e-cigarettes, e success rate of smoking cessation has increased year by year. In 2015, when e-cigarette use in the UK started to level off, quit success rates also started to level off. In 2017, between 50,700 and 69,930 smokers were assisted by e-cigarettes to stop smoking.

The UK wants to be a smoke-free society by 2030, and public health officials and politicians want e-cigarettes to make it happen. Deborah Robson, a postdoctoral senior researcher in tobacco addiction at King’s College London, said: “The UK has a long history of using harm reduction approaches to improve public health. Based on decades of research experience, we have found that nicotine is not a The most harmful substance in tobacco, the millions of toxic gases and tar particles that tobacco burns, really kills the smoker.”

Not long ago, the well-known American media VICE published a commentary, pointing out that the United Kingdom has developed electronic cigarettes into an effective tobacco control method through a step-by-step electronic cigarette regulatory system.