Vapers do not lack for choice. Now the British government wants to give them another: medically licensed e-cigarettes
The aim is to allow doctors to prescribe the devices to patients who want to stop smoking. On October 29th the, the medicines regulator, encouraged manufacturers to submit products for approval. If all goes to plan, England will be the first country to offer such prescriptions.
YouGov’s polling finds the most common reasons smokers give for not vaping, aside from not wanting to break their habit, are that they do not want to swap one addiction for another, that they do not think it will help them quit and because of safety concerns. Ministers think prescriptions will help. Sajid Javid, the health secretary, highlights smoking-rate disparities between rich and poor.
A recent Cochrane Review, which weighed all the evidence, said more was needed but that it was “moderately confident” e-cigarettes help more people to stop smoking than nicotine-replacement therapy or devices without nicotine do. Britain’s greater risk appetite may reflect the fact that lots of work on vaping in smoking cessation was done by British academics.
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