Despite what you might have heard about smoking making a comeback, so far the numbers suggest that fewer people are lighting up than in the past: About 11.6 percent of people in the United States smoked in 2022, down from 22.5 percent in 2002. Still, smoking remains a leading cause of preventable death worldwide, and it is notoriously one of the most difficult habits to break. A group of international experts recently argued that electronic cigarettes, or vapes, may be an underused tool for quitting conventional tobacco cigarettes.
