Smokers welfare? UK MHRA approved electronic cigarette medicine

Electronic cigarette is a kind of imitation cigarettes electronic products, by atomizing the nicotine into a vapor allows users to smoke, mainly by the smoke pipe, atomizer and battery of three parts, allowing users to generate the feeling of smoking cigarettes. Attitude towards the world of electronic cigarettes vary, some opposition, some believe that it can serve as a substitute for cigarettes and help smokers quit, there's no clear statement. However, recently the UK Drug Administration agency (MHRA) is an electronic cigarette issued permit, which was identified as drugs, may appear in future NHS prescriptions issued in the approval.

The MHRA approval is obtained BAT Group's electronic cigarette e-Voke, future doctors may be prescribing as a smoking cessation aid.

In the long run, e-Voke before quitting aids as possible to help the NHS would save a lot of money, but in the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) finds its value for money and posting guidelines, is not yet able to into the health insurance.

Although the electronic cigarette gained recognition MHRA and some experts, however, the long-term safety regulation remains an issue, WHO recommendations should prevent users from using electronic cigarettes indoors.

Just a few weeks ago, the University of California researchers published a paper, electronic cigarettes may not be safer than cigarettes in the Oral Oncology. As electronic cigarettes are smoked by atomizing nicotine allows users, although avoiding other harmful substances in tobacco produced in the combustion process, but nicotine itself is still possible to damage DNA and cause cancer. Tim Ballard of the Royal College of General Practitioners also said that before there is sufficient evidence to prove the safety of electronic cigarettes and help smokers quit effectiveness, they will not let the electronic cigarette appears in the prescription.

In terms of security of electronic cigarettes last year, the British public health system has released an independent review of the report, which represents the electronic cigarette safety than traditional cigarettes 95 percent. However, the spokesman for the British Ministry of Health or stressed, for their own health, smokers better quit completely.

Tobacco leads to 100,000 deaths each year, more than eighty percent of lung cancer and oral cancer and throat cancer and other 13 kinds of cancers are caused by smoking. Quitting tobacco control is an important means to improve national health, smoking away from the source of this bad behavior, is the most effective tobacco control measures