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Forest's response to Public Health England report on e-cigarettes
Wed 19th August, 2015
Forest has reacted cautiously to calls for e-cigarettes to be made available to smokers via the NHS.
Responding to a report by Public Health England, director Simon Clark said:
"We welcome the report but would question whether prescribing e-cigarettes on the NHS is a justifiable use of taxpayers' money.
"E-cigarettes have the potential to help smokers quit but promoting them as a state-approved smoking cessation aid ignores the fact that many people enjoy vaping in its own right and use e-cigs as a recreational not a medicinal product.
"Public health campaigners want to control people's behaviour. E-cigarettes have been successful because the consumer, not the state, is in charge.
"If they want more smokers to switch to e-cigarettes, public health campaigners should embrace consumer choice and oppose unnecessary restrictions on the sale, marketing and promotion of this potentially game-changing product."
See: Vaping: e-cigarettes safer than smoking, says Public Health England (Guardian), E-cigarettes 'should be prescribed on the NHS to cut smoking-related deaths' (Press Association), Health chiefs call for free e-cigarettes on the NHS (Daily Mail), The vape escape (The Sun)
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- Lift ban on vaping on hospital grounds, says Forest
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- War on smoking has gone far enough, Forest tells mayor
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- Plain packs: Forest calls for UK policy review following "five years of failure" in Australia
- Budget 2017: Poor sacrificed on altar of public health, says Forest
- Senator wins 'nanny-in-chief' award
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- Health minister should decline WHO award
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- Councils urged to review funding of anti-tobacco campaign group
- Allow smoking rooms in Scotland's pubs and clubs, say campaigners
- Poll: Majority of adults in Scotland would allow smoking rooms in pubs and clubs
- Forest welcomes defeat of Public Health (Wales) Bill
- "Increasing cost of tobacco benefits no-one apart from spivs and criminals"
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- Increasing tobacco taxation is "economic madness"
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- Jury still out on plain packaging says Forest
- Campaigners urge Chancellor to "be fair to smokers"
- Forest slams call for more cash to reduce adult smoking rate
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- Smoking in cars with children: "education better than big stick"
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- Plain packaging process has been a "sham"
- "What next? Standardised packaging for alcohol and sugary drinks?"
- No public desire for plain packaging say campaigners
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- Government must resist temptation to over-regulate electronic cigarettes, says Forest
- Government urged to publish plain pack consultation report "promptly" and "without further delay"
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- Government launches new anti-smoking campaign
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- Audiences 'at risk' from on-stage smoking
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- Lansley proud of plain packaging consultation
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- Northern Ireland: smoking could be banned in all private cars
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- Federal judge blocks graphic images on tobacco products
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- Smoking "is a big turn off" says Department of Health
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- Wales may allow smoking on film and TV sets
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- Imperial loses appeal against tobacco display ban
- New stats claim to show "shocking" cost of smoking in North East
- Health warnings may violate tobacco company rights says judge
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- Forest to petition government against plain packaging
- Hockney hits back at "haters of tobacco"
- Should cigarettes have plain packets?
- Parents invited to pledge to make their cars smoke-free for kids
- Smoker costs landlady £80 fine
- Scotland's smoking ban branded a failure
- Anti-smoking activists launch campaign to replace branded packs with "plain packs"
- Tobacco display ban could be delayed for several years
- US mayor vetoes smoking ban
- Chicago City Colleges adopts tobacco-free campus policy
- Philip Morris USA launches Citizens for Tobacco Rights
- David Hockney appointed to Order of Merit
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- Revolution in smoking could "eradicate" the cigarette
- Friend of Forest acclaimed for her straight-talking columns
- Children and young people "hoodwinked" by cigarette packaging, says British Heart Foundation
- Welsh assembly government will not ban smoking in cars this term
- 40 per cent of cancers caused by lifestyle including smoking, claims new report
- Now BAT challenges Australian plain pack laws
- Boston bans use of e-cigarettes in the workplace
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November
- Philip Morris fails to pursue Freedom of Information request
- Olympics: smoking to be banned in all ticketed areas
- Plain packaging: tobacco giant to sue Australian government
- Smoking in cars: BMA admits "error"
- Doctors call for smoking ban in cars
- Smoker vows to risk jail rather than pay litter fine
- Increasing taxation doesn't encourage smokers to quit
- Northern Ireland: smoking could be banned in all private cars
- Imperial Tobacco launches new campaign to support adult smokers
- Australia passes plain packaging laws
- Local authority to introduce no smoking policy at playgrounds
- Cancer centre urges smokers to switch to smoke-free tobacco
- PM 'nervous' about car smoking ban
- 'Smokers' manifesto' tour arrives in Dublin
- Hospital smoking bans creating unintended safety issues for patients
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- Doctor suggests tabloids publish daily smoking death toll
- Forest and Save Our Pubs & Clubs featured in BMJ's 'Lobby Watch'
- Smoking ban in Ireland has had no effect on smokers, says chief medical officer
- Call for higher taxes on cigarettes
- Voice of the smoker not being heard, claims Forest Éireann
- Forest at the Conservative party conference
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- TV chef launches e-petition to amend smoking ban
- US tobacco companies sue over graphic warning labels
- US tobacco companies sue over graphic warning labels
- Localism bill will not allow councils to ban smoking in parks and cars, says minister
- Organised criminals target Scots smokers with illegal cigarettes
- I voted for smoking ban but I wouldn't vote for it again, says Labour MP
- Councils threaten to ban smoking in parks
- Plain pack timetable will cause tobacco shortage, says BAT
- Smoking rate reaches historic low in California
- EC reports massive majority against further tobacco controls
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July
- Forest Eireann: no need to ban smoking in cars
- Protest against town smoking ban proposal
- Forest slams proposal to ban smoking in cars
- MP calls for a change to the smoking ban
- ASH criticised for trying to stifle open debate
- Report documents 'persecution' of smokers
- Imperial criticises DoH report on tobacco
- Call to ban smoking in cars
- MPs host event to change smoking ban
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- Sticking an exhaust pipe in your car is safer than smoking says doctor
- Tory MP leads opposition to ban on smoking in cars
- Health minister under fire over ASH links
- Inner city pubs stubbed out by smoking ban
- Register now if you want to change the smoking ban
- Imperial loses appeal against vending machine ban
- ASH awarded WHO medal on 40th "birthday"
- Imperial warns of "nanny state"
- Don't discriminate against smokers, Forest tells NHS
- Imperial Tobacco praised for tobacco consultation response
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- Philip Morris sues Uruguay over anti tobacco legislation
- Members of parliament unite to amend smoking ban
- Forest slams ban on smoking in New York parks, beaches and plazas
- Scottish Government wants power to dictate price of tobacco
- Challenge to Scottish cigarette machine ban rejected by Court of Session
- Voices of Freedom to debate smokers' rights
- Ireland: Government must act to stop pub closures
- BBC's guide to rolling your own cigarette attacked as "breathtakingly irresponsible"
- Mental patients banned from smoking outdoors win right to challenge ruling
- Was Osama bin Laden an anti-smoker?
- Belfast airport introduces smoking fee
- Spanish online smoking guide launched by Imperial Tobacco
- Hospitals lose bid to make tobacco companies pay for smoking-related illnesses
- China bans smoking in public places
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- Hungary: tough new restrictions on public smoking
- Government to cut tobacco guidelines
- USA: e-cigarettes to be regulated as tobacco products
- All US workplaces could be smoke-free by 2020, says CDC
- USA: cigar smokers want right to smoke in public
- Scotland: ban smoking in cars to protect children, says Labour
- Smokers given new shelters at hospital after ignoring blanket ban
- Is smoking still defensible?
- Australian government unveils "world's toughest laws on tobacco promotion"
- UKIP vows to sack MSPs and scrap the smoking ban
- British American Tobacco sets up new business to develop non-tobacco nicotine products
- Shock horror! Prince Harry spotted smoking again
- Sydney apartments stub out smoking
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- Amend smoking ban "to help save the Irish pub"
- Scotland: time to rethink smoking ban, says Forest
- Scotland: time to rethink smoking ban, says Forest
- Chancellor criticised for increasing tobacco duty
- Chancellor criticised for increasing tobacco duty
- NHS Trust conducts poll on smoking in hospital grounds
- NHS Trust conducts poll on smoking in hospital grounds
- UK government announces tobacco control plan
- UK government announces tobacco control plan
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