UK wants to pay for your e-cigarettes. Is this a wise move?

There is some science to how it might cut down smoking, but there are great unknowns and unintended consequences

01 November 2021 - 20:14 By Therese Raphael

The UK has picked its side in the long-running debate about whether e-cigarettes are a wondrous tool for reducing the harm from smoking or a gateway to damaging addiction. Britain now looks likely to become the first country in the world to prescribe vaping for medicinal use — that is, as a way for a tobacco smoker to learn to quit —  and the first to make e-cigarette use taxpayer funded...

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