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Some smokers credit e-cigarettes with saving their lives – does that matter?

  • Written by Allison Kurti, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Vermont
Some smokers credit e-cigarettes with saving their lives – does that matter?Smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the U.S., and most smokers say they want to quit.Mel Evans/AP File Photo

In a major blow to the vaping industry, the American Medical Association has called for a ban on e-cigarettes and vaping products that the FDA doesn’t deem tobacco cessation devices.

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