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The Royal College of Physicians strongly disagrees with you. This is the same group that sounded the alarm on cigarettes in 1962 with their groundbreaking report "Smoking and health" [1]. Their 2016 report, "Nicotine without smoke: Tobacco harm reduction" [2] stands in staunch disagreement with your statement.

[1] https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/smoking-and-hea...

[2] https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/projects/outputs/nicotine-withou...

Thanks for the article, will read at home. The conclusion isn't unanimous however.

That isn’t even slightly true and it’s nonsense like this that is going to kill people when they switch back to smoking cigarettes.

Utter rubbish. The research has just begun and it will take a while to conduct epidemiology studies (basically we have to wait for people to die from e-cigs), but the prognosis is already poor. Here's one study from this year:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2018/01/25/1718185115

What do you consider the strongest sources for those claims, especially the second hand smoke claim?