“But if you smoke there is no situation where it would be better for your health to continue smoking rather than switching completely to vaping. “If you don’t smoke, don’t vape,” said John Newton, director of health improvement at Public Health England. Indeed, health authorities in the UK stand by their support for e-cigarettes as a cessation tool. Rather, e-cigarettes have been embraced mostly as a way for adults to quit combustible cigarettes. Neither has vaping’s popularity soared among young people who never smoked. After vaping-related illness, teen now has lungs like 'a 70-year-old's'īut in the UK, there doesn’t appear to be an outbreak of vaping-related sickness.