GPs to prescribe 'ecigs' in New Year

[Mark]

The Mirror is running the story that the Government is quietly acclerating plans to enable GPs to prescribe ' Ecigs' in the New Year.

It's not news that British American Tobacco were granted a medical licence for the eVoke. Though looking at the device I'd challenge its presentation as an electronic cigarette. No electrics or battery. No heat involved. Just a pressurised nicotine solution. Just an upgraded version of that awful Tampon style inhaler

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/h...-nhs-government-6962452#ICID=sharebar_twitter



http://www.bat.com/nicotine

 

[5steve7]

WTF talk about going backwards

 

[jsixtysix]

'No risk from secondhand vapour' versus 'visible secondhand vapour'. Nothing like guiding the thoughts of the clueless...

 

[junglist]

Cheers @Mark - have just stuck it up on the news on the front page:
https://www.planetofthevapes.co.uk/news/2015-12-06_vaping-to-be-prescribed-on-the-nhs.html

It looks like a new product that has been licenced from what I can see, it says it is the e-Voke and not the voke. Time will tell I guess...

I do wonder how they will get on in the trademark front - http://evokevape.com/ - someone's used the name (not hyphenated) for a herb vapouriser. Hope they take BAT to task over it as they are always quick enough to set the lawyers on to the crappest of infringements.

Shame the gov are blind to how effective a decent set up is compared to the crap that is being brought out that will tick the boxes to get them regulated as medicines. If they worked with some of the big manufacturers to bring in a load of iSticks, mini nautiluses (nautili?) and mix up some NHS custard they would have a lot better success rate and it would be a lot better for the UK purse too.

 

[jaimunki]

Y bother with that set up?

Just release it as an asthma pump type device.

Job done.

I mean how many people can fill a gas lighter successfully without excess fluid leaking onto their hands/lighter?
And now consider those with arteritis.

Great news, more landfill, well done.

And even if we don't use them personally, we get taxed to give the shit away on the NHS, and taxed to landfill it. Great!

20 refills, hahaha, is this the 600 puffs = 20 cigarettes maths back again?

Y don't they just release a nicotine suppository?

~assumes the usual position~

0.45mg...

I'll have 4 please, and a rubber band...

 

[Mr Numpty]

"NHS custard" is the best thing I have ever read.

 

[bern]

That was some volte face by the usually hubristic DM, no? Oh look it's BAT to the rescue, the pension pot coffers are saved! We love ecigs! Cnuts.

 

[NINman]

 

[drizzle]

So the Tobacco companies win in the end! Big Surprise! The Government destroy the current Vaping industry by implementing article 20 of the TPD and then hand one of the biggest Tobacco companies a license to supply the NHS with their own crap version of an e-cig!

 

[puff dragon]

These e-Voke inhalers aren't going to help people kick the habit, any more than the patches or other NRT products, so another waste of Government money. The only good news about this, is the fact that the Government have now accepted that these e-cigs or vaping is safer than tobacco related products. So we will probably be allowed to use our vaping pens inside certain places like shopping malls without someone telling us to stop using them. Most shopping malls have no problem with people vaping anyway, because there is no law to display notices, saying you can't use them. At least it has to be good news for people who are already vaping as it will give the green light that vaping is a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes, otherwise the government wouldn't be adding these e-cigs as another form of NRT on the NHS.