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This study shows that when smokers interested in reduction are provided with an e-cigarette that has cigarette-like nicotine delivery, they are more likely to achieve significant decreases in tobacco-related toxicants, such as lower exhaled carbon monoxide levels. The researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial of 520 participants who smoked more than nine cigarettes a day, were not currently using an e-cigarette device, and were interested in reducing smoking but not quitting

This is why some lifelong smokers find themselves switching brands or even moving to alternatives like nicotine pouches or vapes

What is unclear, though, is if these symptoms are secondary to chronic airway inflammation (as noted in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD), and/or to increased susceptibility to infection

The new regulations deserve strong support. Canada first adopted imaged warning requirements on tobacco product packages in 2000 but the current health-related messages and images for cigarettes and little cigars have been in place since 2011