Robert West, a professor of health psychology and director of tobacco studies at the University College London has taken a pretty bold stance on the impact the electronic cigarettes — also known as nicotine vaporizers — will have on human health.
West studies smoking, addiction, what drives smokers to light up, and what can help them quit.
At the 2013 E-Cigarette Summit at London’s Royal Society he proclaimed that e-cigarettes have the potential to save millions of lives, according to the BBC.
“The big question, and why we’re here, is whether that goal can be realized and how best to do it … and what kind of cultural, regulatory environment can be put in place to make sure that’s achieved,” the BBC quotes the professor as saying. “I think it can be achieved but that’s a hope, a promise, not a reality.”
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