Is there enough data to support that claim? Not really disagreeing, i genuinely don’t know. There was a time where your doctor would tell you to smoke camels, because these are the healty cigarettes.

Had a wretched smoker’s cough for years, took me an extra 10 minutes to cough it out and get out of bed. Stopped 2 weeks after going to vaping.

OTOH, 10 years later vaping became too much, now I do those nicotine pouches. Very happy with those.