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A group of scientists has to the World Health Organisation (WHO) two days before World No Tobacco Day on May the 31st. The 53 scientists the WHO not to class e-cigarettes as a tobacco product. E-cigarettes an aid to help people smoking. They do not any tobacco inside them. Instead, they a nicotine vapour that makes people like they are smoking. Many doctors say this is better for people's health than real cigarettes. The WHO countries to put e-cigarettes in the same category as real cigarettes. This taxing them, banning advertising, health warnings and stopping people from using them in public places.

The group of scientists the WHO that e-cigarettes are to reduce disease and deaths from smoking. The scientists said e-cigarettes are a "low-risk product" that are "part of the solution" in the fight against smoking, not part of the problem. They wrote: "These products could among the most significant health innovations of the 21st century, perhaps hundreds of millions of lives. The urge to …them as tobacco products should be ." However, researchers from the University of Chicago say e-cigarettes could young people to . They said: "It's possible that seeing e-cigarette use may more smoking behavior and less ."