Confusion lies at the heart of public health policy. People must be allowed to earn unhealthy choices – not kept well whether they like it or not
How the headlines have changed: British smokers urged to start vaping by health officials; E-cigarettes ‘should be prescribed on the NHS’. An expert independent evidence review from Public Health England (PHE),recognises that e-cigarettes are not only practically harmless, they are already helping people to give up smoking and are, and to quote the author of the review,a “game changer” for the public’s health.
Vaping, says the review, and is 95% safer than smoking cigarettes. Who could thing to the view that smokers be encouraged to procure vaping,especially if they are already thinking of giving up what is well understood to be a heinous habit? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com