E-cigarette ‘safety’ study was written by industry funded scientists, Lancet warns

‘A study which was cited by public health officials when they advised that vaping was safe, was funded by the e-cigarette industry, it has emerged.

Last week Public Health England (PHE) launched a report encouraging Britain’s eight million smokers to switch to e-cigarettes stating that they are 20 times less harmful than traditional cigarettes.

They called for e-cigarettes to be prescribed on the NHS claiming that vaping was 95 per cent safer than smoking tobacco.

But now it has emerged that their report relied on a 2014 study that was conducted by scientists in the pay of e-cigarette companies.

Writing in the respected medical journal The Lancet, health experts warn that PHE had based a ‘major conclusion’ on an ‘extraordinarily flimsy foundation’. It accused the agency of falling short of its mission to protect public health.’

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