E-cigarettes help smokers quit, Cochrane review confirms

Electronic cigarettes may help smokers quit, and no serious side effects are associated with their use, a review of the latest evidence has found.1

An updated Cochrane review found no new randomised controlled trials of e-cigarettes since its first review, published in December 2014.2 However, the updated review includes 11 observational studies, and those that measured side effects found no serious side effects from using e-cigarettes for as …