Electronic Cigarettes
(asked on 13th October 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the number of people switching from cigarettes to e-cigarettes in each of the last three years.
This question was answered on 18th October 2016
The Department has not made an assessment of the number of people that have used e-cigarettes to quit or replace smoking in each of the last three years. Data from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) suggests in 2015 there were 2.6 million e-cigarette users of which nearly two out of five no longer smoked tobacco products.
ASH ‘Use of electronic cigarettes (vapourisers) among adults in Great Britain’, 2015: