Britain's Public Health: Doctors should prescribe e-cigarettes to smokers


- Reuters

LONDON: E-cigarettes should be prescribed to smokers to help them quit the habit, British public health experts recommended in a study on Wednesday.

The study commissioned by health authority Public Health England (PHE) found that so-called "vaping" of electronic cigarettes was 95% less dangerous than smoking traditional tobacco cigarettes.

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