Should the NHS provide electronic cigarettes on prescription? | From the Observer | The Observer
You can have a spoonful of sugar in your stomach,that is one thing, but if you are to inhale a spoonfulof sugar it is something else, said Kendall. There are a bunch of studies that say the vapour does potentially cause some adverse health affects, plus the contents of the vapour are entirely unregulated and there is no quality control. The Woodsdale Store in Winfield is where the kids bought the e-cigs and Store Manager Chris Hagel says suppliers have informed them they are totally harmless and safe for kids. If they are approved in the province how is it for us to say who should or should not buy them?, said Hagel. The vendor we get our e-cigarettes from said there is nothing illegal in the e-cigarettes and they are legal to sell to minors.
citation: http://www.castanet.net/news/Central-Okanagan/115788/No-minor-issue-over-E-cigs
E-cigarettes are not cheap and making quality assured products available on prescription will encourage more smokers to get help from the NHS and so save lives. It makes no sense to say that because products are available on prescription smokers will be put off using them because they feel infantilised. The NHS exists to provide high quality, free healthcare at the point of v2 music need. Quite rightly, it does not make moral judgments about people I am an ex-smoker. More typically than you I had my first cigarette when I was 10, and was a regular smoker before I left school.
original: http://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/may/24/debate-should-nhs-prescribe-e-cigarettes?CMP=twt_gu
Reynolds Expanding E-Cigarette Production – ABC News
is expanding its Tobaccoville, North Carolina, manufacturing complex as it plans national distribution of its Vuse brand electronic cigarette this summer, the company said Friday. The owner of nation’s second-biggest tobacco company did not disclose the costs related to the ramp-up, which will include a multi-million dollar investment for high-speed manufacturing equipment, for competitive reasons but said the move would create more than 200 jobs over the next four years. Reynolds, based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, launched Vuse in Colorado last June and plans the initial wave of national distribution next month. Production is currently done at a contractor facility in Kansas, but the company said more production will be needed for the foreseeable future to meet anticipated market demand. The company will carve out about 70,000 square feet of space in its existing 2 million-square-foot Tobaccoville facility.
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