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NHS Scotland States ECigs ‘definitely’ LESS harmful than smoking.

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E-cigarettes are “definitely” less harmful than smoking tobacco, health bodies within the NHS Scotland have stated almost conclusively for the first time. NHS Health Scotland said it waken to “clarify” the confusion around both the harms and benefits of vaping devices. More than 20 organisations have all signed up to this consensus, which was led […]

NHS Derriford Hospital allows vaping on its grounds

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Health managers have decided to allow vaping in the grounds of Devon’s largest hospital.  Derriford Hospital banned all forms of smoking on its premises from 2016. But the board of the NHS University Hospitals Plymouth has now rethought the ban, after Public Health England (PHE) said vaping was 95% less harmful than smoking.  The plans […]