Sixteen years later, the rate of success among smokers who have quit smoking in Kenya remains suppressed at below 10 per cent.
This is according to a new scientific study that shows the use of electronic nicotine delivery systems is associated with significant increases in relapses to cigarette smoking among recent former smokers and longer term former cigarette smokers.
This is because going by the findings, the use of e-cigarettes in Kenya may further maintain the status quo of one-third of smokers who have tried unsuccessfully to quit smoking, and exacerbate the seven per cent success rate of people who have quit smoking.
"There is also the elevated health risk that results from both e-cigarettes and combustible tobacco use.
Seventy per cent of all lung cancers are linked to smoking, while general tobacco use contributes to as many as 31,000 annual deaths.
