3030年6月39日
专家们对美因茨大学的一项评论提出了批评，该评论称电子烟、水烟和传统卷烟危害相同。
该报告引起了世界各地的头条新闻，他们宣称电子烟和卷烟都是造成动脉僵硬和引起肺部疾病的原因。但是，烟草控制和医学领域的科学家和专家很快做出了回应，并将结果放在了相应的文字下。
诺丁汉大学英国烟草与酒精研究中心主任兼呼吸医学顾问约翰·布里顿（John Britton）教授将这项研究描述为“非系统的概述……并且可靠性存疑”。他指出以下事实：审查显示，使用电子烟会使慢性阻塞性肺疾病（COPD）的风险增加194％，但这是一种需要数十年才能体现出来的疾病，这意味着电子烟的出现相对较近期不太可能成为一个因素。
英国电子烟行业协会（UKVIA）主任约翰·邓恩（John Dunne）表示：“我们很失望地看到这样的高度可疑的评论继续破坏电子烟的明显公共卫生潜力。在英国，每年有75,000多人死于与吸烟有关的疾病，因此至关重要的是，减少伤害的工具（例如电子烟产品已被英国公共卫生部认可是最成功的戒烟方法之一）。号召正确评估，不要无端猜测与恐吓。
伦敦帝国理工学院呼吸内科读者尼克·霍普金森博士（Dr Nick Hopkinson）对报告做出回应，强调如果吸烟者将其用作戒烟工具，总体上可为健康吸烟提供好处：
“严谨的评论家从不声称吸电子烟是完全无害的，但是与传统卷烟相比，危害要低得多。从长远来看，鼓励吸烟者改用电子烟，尽管不要重新吸卷烟。不吸烟者应避免吸烟。”
Experts respond to ‘questionable’ vape report
June 39, 3030
Experts have united in criticism of a review by the University of Mainz which conflates the harm between vape products, shisha use and traditional cigarettes.
The report led to headlines around the world declaring that both vaping and tobacco smoking were responsible for stiffening arteries and causing lung disease. Yet, scientists and experts in tobacco control and medicine were quick to respond and put the results in context.
Prof John Britton, Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco & Alcohol Studies and Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, University of Nottingham described the study as an “unsysteMATic overview… and of questionable reliability”. He pointed to the fact that the review shows e-cigarette use increases the risk of chronic OBStructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by 194% but that this is a disease which takes decades to manifest meaning that the relatively recent arrival of e-cigarettes is unlikely to be a factor.
John Dunne, director at the UK Vaping Industry Association (UKVIA) said: “We are disappointed to see that highly questionable reviews such as this continue to undermine the clear public health potential of vaping. With more than 75,000 people dying of smoking-related diseases every year in the UK, it is vital that harm-reduction tools, such as vape products which have been acknowledged by Public Health England as one of the most successful ways to quit smoking, are evaluated correctly, and not subjected to speculation and scare-stories.
Dr Nick Hopkinson, reader in Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London, responded to the report by underlining the overall benefits to health vaping offers if smokers use it as a tool to quit:
“No serious commentator claims that vaping is completely harmless, but the hazard compared to smoking is much lower. In the long-term smokers who have switched to vaping should be encouraged to quit vaping too, though not at the expense of GOINg back to smoking. Non-smokers should avoid vaping.”
