Licensing delay leaves e-cigarette manufacturers in limbo

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A government plan to licence all nicotine-containing electronic cigarettes has been delayed amid fears that up to a hundred British businesses could be wiped out by the measure.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, part of the Department of Health, started a consultation on licensing almost three years ago but has yet to make a decision. Since then, thousands more people have taken up the devices as an alternative to smoking tobacco.
However, e-cigarette companies are not legally required to have a licence unless they want to market the product as a smoking cessation device —

 

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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/industries/health/article3668906.ece
If the world’s one billion cigarette smokers were to switch to electronic cigarettes, the death toll would be reduced from more than five million each year to perhaps tens of thousands.
E-cigarettes are designed to deliver nicotine to the user without the toxic gases and particles contained in cigarette smoke.
Smokers and e-cigarette users can expect to get up to 20mg of nicotine per day and, at that dose, nicotine appears to have minimal effects on physical health for the large majority of people.

 

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