PARIS: Tobacco-free electronic cigarettes are as effective as nicotine patches in weaning smokers off their habit, but both techniques are only modestly successful, a study said on Saturday (Sunday in Manila).

It is the first trial to compare the increasingly popular “e-cigarette”—a plastic tube which heats a liquid to an inhalable vapor—against nicotine patches as an anti-smoking aid.

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