Another revealing answer from Parliament

[Mark]

MP David Davies is on a roll. He asked for a breakdown of the number of ADR (Adverse Drug Reactions) for ecigs, NRT and Varenicline (or Champix/Chantix)

The following table shows the total number of serious UK spontaneous ‘suspected’ ADR reports received by the MHRA between 23 July 2013 and 22 July 2014 broken down for E-Cigarettes, Nicotine Replacement Therapies (excluding E-Cigarettes) and Varenicline:


Total Serious Reports
Varenicline


297


Nicotine Replacement therapy


75


E-Cigarettes


5

House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 04 Sep 2014 (pt 0002)

 

[knome]

I bet you could perform some nifty WHOstistics and Glantzematics on those numbers.

 

[Mark]

A link to the specific question here
They do emphasise incidents may be under reported but give the swathe of coverage ecigs are getting I would have thought this likely to encourage rather than dissuade reporting the matter

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