Because smoking cigarettes may raise the risk of complications from COVID-19, people have quit smoking in record numbers throughout the past year. A recent poll from University College London shows that over 1 million people in the U.K. alone have quit smoking in 2020 — and a full 40 percent have named concerns over COVID-19 as their reason why.

When people decide to quit tobacco, many will turn to vapes or e-cigarettes to get the nicotine fix that they crave. [...] “The true answer is that it's too early for us to know whether vaping is less unhealthy than smoking,” says Renea Jablonski, a board-certified pulmonologist [...]