Prof Peter Hajek: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- director of the Health and Lifestyle Research Unit at Queen Mary University of London
- Quoted on
- Cancer
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“These results show that dual use promotes genuine harm reduction and that it can be a useful step to stopping smoking altogether.”
What Prof Peter Hajek has said
“false beliefs about vapes discouraged smokers from making the switch and "closed the door to a relatively easy way out of the deadly habit"”
director of the Health and Lifestyle Research Unit at Queen Mary University of London · Cancer · 27 Aug 2026 · Majority of UK smokers wrongly believe vaping is as harmful as cigarettes, experts find ↗
Where Prof Peter Hajek has been quoted
- Dual use of cigarettes and vapes can help smokers quit in the long termpulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Majority of UK smokers wrongly believe vaping is as harmful as cigarettes, experts findtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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