If all but five percent of American smokers switched to e-cigarettes, 6.6 million premature deaths would be avoided, according to a new study.
That adds up to 86.7 million cumulative years of life saved, as estimated by the new research from Georgetown University Medical Center. The 15 percent of Americans that currently smoke would regain about three years of life.
The study also included a more ‘pessimistic’ prediction, in which all but 10 percent of smokers switched in the next 10 years, and vaping was not as safe as we currently hope.
Even then, the researchers still found that 1.6 million lives would be saved, for a total of 20.8 million fewer years of human life lost.
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