Whether or not e-cigarettes help you quit smoking as vapes to be offered on NHS
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dailyrecord.co.ukIn a bid to cut down the number of smokers, e-cigarettes could soon be prescribed by the NHS. Almost 64,000 people died due to smoking related illness in 2019, says the UK Government's Health Secretary Sajid Javid.
He added that the UK Government is determined to make England smoke-free by 2030, with Scotland having its own plans to raise a 'tobacco-free generation' by 2034.
New rules set out by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) will permit submission of products from vaping firms in order to gain approval, much like the method used for medicines and vaccines.
E-cigarettes, once approved, would be prescribed on a case-by-case basis to patients, reports The Mirror. Javid said that this move to prescribe
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