Malaysia: Survey shows Ecigs benefits for health and motivations to vape

Vaping in Malaysia: an unprecedented online survey was carried out at a time when governmental misinformation is used to justify restrictive measures against e-cigarettes. Dr K. Farsalinos presents his results: vapers are healthier than smokers and use ecigs to withdraw themselves from smoking. Gateway effects to smoking and attraction to the youth are discarded.

Facing governmental pressures with, for example, placards stuck on hospital’s walls, all over the country, that misleadingly explain the e-cigarette contains tar and carcinogenic substances, the vaping market is in net decline and the vaping associations concerned by the potential relapse to smoking tobacco.
In the complex political context of some regard as the second largest market for vaping products after the United States, a study was carried out by the Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos and supported by Malaysian vapers associations, vape shops and social media to characterize the population of vapers and to know their motivations.

Online survey: Almost certainly the largest of its kind

The research took place in the first half of 2016 and the results made public late July 2016. 7,124 people took part in the online study in both Malay and English that was constructed based on previous experience from the largest online survey of electronic cigarette users.

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