E-cigarettes ‘could save thousands of lives’

Tens of thousands of lives could be saved every year if all British smokers switched from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, experts have said.

Researchers from University College London (UCL) estimated that for every million smokers who switch from tobacco to electronic cigarettes, over 6,000 premature deaths would be prevented each year in the UK.

There are around nine million British smokers and if they all switched to the nicotine vapour inhalers instead of the tobacco products they currently use, around 54,000 lives could be saved.