Vaping Demystified content
This short investigative film provides smokers with the information needed to make an informed decision about using vape products.
Watch Vaping Demystified
Quote from Mike Sugden, ex-smoker
"After a year of stopping smoking, I felt better in myself. I didn't feel out of breath all the time, I just felt alive."
Key facts
- Smoking is Yorkshire’s leading cause of preventable cancer and is responsible for over 4500 new cases each year
- Cigarette smoke contains thousands of chemicals, of which 69 are known to cause cancer.
- 1 in 2 long-term smokers will die prematurely if they don’t quit.
- It is never too late to stop smoking. Quitting at any age can lengthen and improve quality of life, even for those with a smoking-related illness.
- The evidence is clear that vaping is far less harmful than smoking. Switching completely can improve the health of smokers substantially, compared to continuing to smoke.
- Vapour does not cause harm to others around you. This is in contrast to secondhand smoke from smoking, which is very harmful to the health of others.
- Vaping products are the most popular stop smoking aid in England. We have estimated that there are up to 5000 additional quitters a year in Yorkshire because of them.
- Vaping products are not completely risk-free. Non-smokers should therefore not start vaping.
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