World Study: Regular Vapers Are Much More Likely to Have Quit Smoking

 

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Alongside the continuous deluge of misinformation about vaping, there is a continuous stream of data revealing the reality of the situation. People like Stanton Glantz will make extreme statements based on bad studies (probably conducted by him) and be given platforms around the world to spread his message, while hard-working researchers like Dr. Konstatinos Farsalinos struggle to even get recognition in the media for his many well-conducted pieces of research.

This is true in just about every aspect of the vaping debate, but one particularly insidious example is the “debate” around whether vaping really helps smokers quit. It does. But that doesn’t stop the misinformation from flowing, usually based on poorly-conducted studies that don’t even pass the most basic sense-check from interested readers, even non-experts who decide to read behind the headlines.buy vape online in Dubai

A great example of this is a study published in 2018, with none other than Stanton Glantz as senior author, which looked at data from the 2014 Eurobarometer survey and concluded:

On the population level, the net effect of the entry of e-cigarettes into the European Union (and Great Britain) is associated with depressed smoking cessation of conventional cigarettes.buy vape online in Dubai

This conflicts with tons of research from around the world, and it’s unsurprising that there was something wrong with the analysis. That’s why Dr. Farsalinos and Anastasia Barbouni published a new study based on the 2017 version of the same survey, improving the analysis and – shockingly enough – coming to a completely different conclusion. They found that current or former daily vaping was positively associated with recently having quit smoking.buy vape online in Dubai

So what’s going on here? Why have the two studies come to such different conclusions?

So – shock horror – Stanton Glantz produced another flawed piece of research with results aligned with his ideological goals. The problem of how much undue attention his research gets is still a serious one, but the more we can counter it with direct refutations like this, the better.buy vape online in Dubai