Smoking is bad for your health as the toxins produced by burning tobacco cause smoking-related illnesses. The majority of health benefits are seen when you stop smoking completely. Some people find cutting down as a helpful step to quitting, but stopping smoking completely should be the end goal.

Vaping is not harmless, but it is much less harmful than smoking.

The healthiest option is not to vape or smoke. Don’t vape if you don’t smoke. Only vape to quit smoking.

Fact check

‘There is now general agreement that vaping use exposes the user to fewer toxicants than smoking tobacco cigarettes.’ (McNeill 2015; RCP 2016. Cochrane Review.)

Yep, one cigarette per day is still risky. Read the meta-analysis of 141 studies to understand why. Keen for a breakdown of the graph? View the 2018 Annual Review of Public Health.