Q1. Are you concerned about the health harms from secondhand vape?
Q2. Do you want to support smokers to quit?
Q3. Do you want to prevent youth smoking?
Q4. Do you want to prevent youth vaping?
Q5. Do you want to present a welcoming and healthy impression for your premises.
A1 Harm from vape seems negligible compared to smoke and outdoors
A2 Outdoor vape bans may 📉quitting
A3 📈adult smokers will likely📈young smokers
A4 Regular vaping is v rare among youth who never smoke
A5 Who do you want to welcome and how do people show healthy choices
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@MauriceGSwanson@ATHRA_AU@MailOnline@PHE_uk 1/... Hello Maurice. I’m always interested in the basis and motivation for disputing ‘at least 95% less harmful’ as a basis for communicating relative risks of vaping Vs smoking. Let’s start with the basis.
When the weaknesses have more weaknesses than the study they critique. Here’s a few:
1. The previous RCTs also found EC more effective, even though the devices were obsolete when the studies were published. The effect size was smaller because the devices weren’t as good.
2. The ‘highly selected group’ were smokers who want to quit. This is entirely normal for a stop smoking survey. Who else would you recruit? Non smokers or smokers who don’t want to quit?