HealthDay reports, “Researchers found that among Americans who’d recently quit smoking, those who were using e-cigarettes were just as likely to relapse in the next year as non-users were.” And the risk of relapse “was actually slightly increased among former smokers who were using any type of non-cigarette tobacco product – including e-cigarettes, hookahs and smokeless tobacco.” The findings, “reported online Oct. 19 in JAMA Network Open, counter the idea that e-cigarettes can help former smokers abstain from traditional cigarettes.” The study “comes on the heels of a decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to grant its first-ever authorization to an e-cigarette product.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.

CNN reports, “Using e-cigarettes and other tobacco products to keep from relapsing to cigarettes doesn’t appear to be effective,” researchers concluded in “a new longitudinal study of nearly 13,000 smokers in the United States,” analyzing “data on smokers who had quit cigarettes.” The study revealed that “50% of former smokers who quit tobacco ‘cold turkey’ were off cigarettes at the second annual follow up, but only 41.5% of those who used any other form of tobacco use, including e-cigarettes, had quit successfully.” The study analyzed data “gathered by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products.”

From the news release of the American Association for Justice.