NHS to offer e-cigarettes on prescription

[Ron]

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-offer-e-cigarettes-prescription-6277049

Is it opening the gates for big Phama to claim all the glory of a smoke free population?

[letsavit]

Cool a DNA2000 and some t juice on prescription, save me a fortune.....

[Skwoddy]

I smell a rat

[vapee]

At the end of the article "Sales of the vaping devices has slowed from its 2011 peak after some experts and lobby groups suggested they were possibly being taken up by youngsters."
maybe it was written in 2012, even then doesn't make sense heh

[Deleted]

I honestly cant see the government supporting this. Losing millions of taxes from
tobacco sales to promote ecigs. Somethings not right here i smell shite.

[Skwoddy]

The NNA have picked up on it

nnalliance.org/about-us/news/616-press-release-e-cigarettes-an-evidence-update

[bioxx]

Great, I take another Kanger subox then, for my daily walks.

They couldn't help themselves with their schematic showing it as a nicotine vapouriser. Even if there is nicotine involved its the smallest part of what gets vapourised there.

Why isn't vapourise/vapouriser in the Br. Engl. dictionary yet? At least not in the CybeFox one.

[sydsut]

Aug 19, 2015 1:21:37 GMT vapee said:

At the end of the article "Sales of the vaping devices has slowed from its 2011 peak after some experts and lobby groups suggested they were possibly being taken up by youngsters."
maybe it was written in 2012, even then doesn't make sense heh

This is based, I believe, on the fall in the Big Tobacco companies sales of cig-alikes etc. It doesn't take into account the massive growth in on-line suppliers especially from China, high street B & M stores and the growth in home mixing of e-liquids which are very difficult to quantify. For example how do you calculate the percentage sales of VG from Boots say, that goes into e-liquids and that which is used for other purposes. Also a person need only buy one mod and one atty in a year and yet vape the equivalent of 40 fags a day. Does anyone know of a method to get an accurate count of sales of all the diverse parts of vaping equipment and juices?.  An accounting and statistical nightmare.

[GunJack]

This is making the headlines on BBC news and some other papers this morning, with the "95% safer than tobacco" headline being used....

...it looks like the tide may be well and truly turning

[GunJack]

P.S. the BBC Wales news are pointing out that (not in the same words, of course) it totally shoots down the arguments being used by Mark Drakeford ( ) in his attempt to ban vaping in public places

..there's hope for us in Wales

[padiho]

At last...hopefully we will no longer have people saying " ooh do you know that ecigs are dangerous" when they see us blowing clouds.

[Grandad]

Dont shoot me down for being a little negative but i bet theres a method to there madness, how it can turn round so quickly.

Like above says i smell a rat.

With the possible ban not far away get everyone on ecigs then the tobbaco companies can goven what they sell to you and be quids in.

Sorry to sound negative

[Deleted]

I'm with Grandad on this, The big boys (phama) know they have lost the free market, So been in control of the controlled market makes a lot of sense for them.

[chykensa]

I too suspect that there is an ulterior motive behind all this recent about-turning. Nothing is free in this life, and it is now a waiting game to see what transpires.
Big T is undoubtedly behind all this, and nno government wants to lose the amount of taxes from tobacco, with nothing to replace it. This is not taking into account the amount of money Government receives from Big T in other ways too.
Does anyone know what a rat smells like, BTW?

[Grandad]

Spot on @19steve57