A new study has revealed that consumption of e-cigarettes is much less harmful than cigarettes, with alcohol being the most dangerous substance.
Lawrence D. Phillips, a researcher from London School of Economics at a conference of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), presented the relative risks of different drugs at Advances in Decision Analysis and said that e-cigarettes should be classified as a device for fighting nicotine addiction.
Phillips also concluded it by saying that how people smoke due to addiction of nicotine but instead they end up dying.
A 2013 expert panel about the relative harm of 12 nicotine products named cigarettes the most harmful but ranked e-cigarettes near the bottom, in ninth place. Prof. Phillips explores its results in his presentation at Georgetown University.
Overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug (overall harm score 72), with heroin (55) and crack cocaine (54) in second and third places. Similar results were found when analyzing the continental Europe panel.
