Evidence is clear: Vaping helps smokers quit, saves lives

A separate, first-person Dhaval Gogate op-ed draft for The Indian Express — distinct from his other Indian Express piece, “Vaping: The way forward for tobacco harm reduction” (also in this collection) — recounting his own switch from smoking to vaping and making the evidence case that nicotine itself is not what harms smokers, tar and combustion are. Date is approximate, matched to the companion piece from the same source batch — the archived draft carries no dateline, and independent confirmation this exact draft (as opposed to a further-edited version) ran in print has not been done.