Thanks! My initial thought was why should I throw more money at this potentially dangerous object ...but common sense tells me it's a small price to pay
What a fiasco!
I hadn't heard about that - what a stupid notion. A relatively low-cost starter kit would quite likely have as good, if not better, success rate. The cynical side of me wonders if these women were tested for nicotine before being given a further voucher.
To me it seems as poorly thought out as the recent announcement of 2.2bn for gastric band operations to tackle the obesity problem ...never mind that people are denied life saving drugs due to NHS budget cuts!
The food industry would be a better place to start - but if they allowed tobacco companies to put all manner of harmful things into cigarettes, why would they want to regulate food manufacture!
There have been numerous studies and articles regarding e-cigs published in many forms, including The Lancet. Studies and research carried out by eminent professionals, who have probably always been amongst the loudest voices in the anti-smoking campaigns. The conclusions have all been positive - yet still we have non-professionals such as government trying to control and belittle it. Why is it not enough that those who are qualified to do so can proclaim e-cigs a good thing ...likely because those who are thus qualified have no affiliation to the big tobacco companies, have no control over taxation, and as such do not have any financial gain to consider.
Given time, I can't help wondering if the savings to the NHS would balance the loss of tax revenue from cigarettes. It will take time for e-cigs to prove themselves a healthier replacement, but unless some as yet hidden ill effect suddenly manifests amongst us e-cig users, it can only be a good thing.
Users of e-cigs need to be seen, and their effectiveness understood by far more people. For the time being, they're far safer, and far more effective than alternative cessation products.
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Politics and big business mesh in ways most people will never totally understand, and quite likely in many ways that people would find unacceptable: to put it bluntly, corruption.
I'm living proof that even the determined not to even try giving up, can and
do stop smoking!
Anyone here for a number of months will know that I gave up virtually by accident.
And look how long ago that was