Despite what you may have heard about tobacco’s comeback, the numbers so far suggest that fewer people are lighting up than in the past: About 11.6 percent of Americans smoked in 2022, up from 22.5 percent in 2002. Yet smoking remains one of the leading causes of preventable death worldwide, and it’s notoriously one of the hardest habits to break. A group of international experts recently argued that electronic cigarettes, or vapes, may be an underutilized tool for quitting conventional tobacco cigarettes.
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