The e-cigarette revolution: 4.3 million Britons now use e-cigarettes, a 5-fold increase in 10 years
According to a report by SKY, a record 4.3 million people in the UK are actively using e-cigarettes after a five-fold increase in a decade.
About 8.3% of adults in England, Wales and Scotland are now believed to use e-cigarettes regularly, up from 1.7% (about 800,000 people) 10 years ago.
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), which prepared the report, said a revolution had already taken place.
E-cigarettes let people inhale nicotine instead of smoking.
Since e-cigarettes do not produce tar or carbon monoxide, they have a fraction of the risks of cigarettes, the NHS said.
Liquids and vapors contain some potentially harmful chemicals, but at much lower levels. However, the potential long-term effects of e-cigarettes are unclear.
ASH reports that around 2.4 million UK e-cigarette users are former smokers, 1.5 million are still smoking and 350,000 have never smoked.
However, 28% of smokers said they had never tried e-cigarettes - and one in 10 of them feared they were not safe enough.
One in five former smokers said vaping helped them break the habit. This appears to be consistent with a growing body of evidence that e-cigarettes can be effective in helping people quit smoking.
Most vapers report using refillable open vaping systems, but there appears to be an increase in single-use vaping — up from 2.3% last year to 15% today.
Young people appear to be driving the growth, with nearly half of 18- to 24-year-olds saying they have used the devices.
Fruit flavors followed by menthol are the most popular vaping options, according to the report - a YouGov survey of more than 13,000 adults.
ASH said the government now needed an improved strategy to reduce cigarette use.
ASH Deputy Director Hazel Cheeseman said: "There are now five times as many e-cigarette users as there were in 2012, and millions of people use them as part of their smoking cessation.
"However, they don't work for everyone. Of the smokers who tried them, less than half stopped using them, and 28% didn't try them at all."
"The government says the vaping revolution will help them achieve their ambition to be a smoke-free country by 2030, but it's not enough - we need a comprehensive plan to help all smokers."
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