According to the CDC’s early release of its National Health Interview Survey, smoking rates in the U.S. have hit an all time low of 14.9 percent in 2015, which breaks the previous year’s record low of 16.8 percent. Smoking rates in both the U.S. and the U.K. have seen steady decline over the last 7 years, but no one seems to be able to agree on why that is. According to the CDC, their anti-smoking campaigns are to thank; however, on the other side of the Atlantic, Public Health England cites a different reason for decreasing tobacco use: the soaring popularity of e-cigarettes.
Smoking Rates Decline As E-Cig Use Increases
In August of 2015, Public Health England published a comprehensive evidence-based review on electronic cigarettes, which named e-cigs as a primary contributor to record low smoking rates. The same report concluded that, “e-cigarettes are around 95 percent safer than smoked tobacco, and they can help smokers to quit.”
In the U.S., smoking rates have also been plummeting since 2008, just one year after electronic cigarettes were first introduced in the United States. Despite the good news, tobacco is still the most frequent cause of preventable death and disease in the U.S. Everyone knows the dangers of smoking: About 500,000 Americans die from smoking related illnesses every year, and for each death, another 30 smokers are living with chronic illness or disability due to smoking. In addition to their shocking Tips Campaign, the CDC attributes the recent decline in smoking to higher tobacco taxes, public smoking bans and pharmaceutical nicotine replacement therapies, or NRTs; however, the decline in tobacco use has also coincided with a boom in the vaping industry. Annual e-cig sales in the U.S. totaled around $20 million in 2008, but by 2014, that figure reached $1.5 billion. Could there be a link between these inverse trends?
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