Vaping is 95pc safer than smoking real tobacco

WITH regards to claims that vaping is perhaps worse than smoking cigarettes, this is simply not true (‘Vaping clouds the issue of reducing number of smokers’, Letters, February 6).

Studies have shown that vaping is 95pc safer than real tobacco.

It’s now known that electronic vapes only have two to three chemicals in them; to assume that inhaling vapour is worse than real cigarettes that contain roughly 3,000 chemicals is mistaken.

More research is needed on electronic cigarettes but there are promising indications that they may potentially help to reduce the numbers of those smoking and this is something that could vigorously improve public health. Benjamin Burroughs

Derry city, Co Derry