Incredulous, laughable and

INCREDULOUS, LAUGHABLE AND EXTREMELY WORRYING

Advocates hit back at The Lancet - one of the world’s most respected medical journals - after it published a ‘misleading’ and ‘one-sided’ report against vaping.

Words: Jordan Millar

A leading medical journal is under fire for publishing an ‘incredulous, laughable and extremely worrying’ anti-vaping article.

The shocking report was littered with ‘completely untrue’ statements about lifesaving e-cigarettes, even claiming that there was no robust evidence to support them as an effective quitting tool.

Experts are now questioning why The Lancet – one of the world’s oldest medical journals - would feature a report that so boldly ‘ignores evidence’, especially given its dedication to ‘publishing excellence’ and ‘the best science’.

John Dunne of the UK Vaping Industry Association said: “Worryingly this isn’t just an article questioning the clinical evidence basis for vaping as a harm reduction tool.

“This is an insult to all the independent companies who have not just contributed positively to public health, but have created huge numbers of jobs and one of the fastest growing industries this century.” The UKVIA director general added: “We have the greatest respect for the medical profession, but for one of its leading journals to carry this article is quite unbelievable.”

Dunne said that everything about the report ‘smacks of anti-vaping propaganda’, with the ‘Another Public Health Catastrophe’ article even suggesting that the vaping industry exists simply to ‘line the pockets’ of Big Tobacco.

But with 95 percent of the UKVIA’s own membership having ‘no affiliation’ to tobacco companies, Dunne argued that the

report’s claims were far from the truth.

What was perhaps most alarming was the article’s ‘laughable’ attempt to dismiss provaping findings from Public Health England, claiming that they contradict the rest of the world.

However, Dunne highlighted a host of respected organisations that recognise the harm reduction potential of vaping, including Cancer Research UK and the Royal College of Physicians.

He said: “It’s these types of one-sided and misleading articles that leave smokers and vapers confused.

Dunne added: “Such a highly respected journal as the Lancet should know better when running articles and look at all the evidence and opinions across the healthcare spectrum.

“As a responsible industry, we’re more than up for continued independent clinical research into the long-term impact of vaping, to prove once and for all that vaping is the biggest public health prize seen this century.”

We have the greatest respect for the medical profession, but for one of its leading journals to carry this article is quite unbelievable.

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