HealthMatch Vaping may be safer than cigarettes, but it's not safe Many adult smokers still aren't aware of the full range of evidence based alternatives available to them. Recent UK research shows that misperceptions around the relative risks of vaping have reached record levels, No, vapes aren't 95% less harmful than cigarettes. Here's how this decade old myth took off A decade ago, the most frequent opinion among smokers was that vaping was less harmful than tobacco. But ten years on, the opposite is true: over a third say that vapes are