LONDON - Up to one million smokers will be encouraged to swap cigarettes for “vapes”, with pregnant women offered financial incentives to make the change in what will be a world's first, the British government said on Tuesday (April 11). Under the scheme, almost one in five smokers will be given a vape – an e-cigarette – starter kit along...
Under the scheme, almost one in five smokers will be given a vape starter kit along with support to help quit smoking.LONDON - Up to one million smokers will be encouraged to swap cigarettes for “vapes”, with pregnant women offered financial incentives to make the change in what will be a world's first, the British government said on Tuesday .
Pregnant women will also be offered vouchers to help them kick the habit as part of the government’s target of reducing the number of smokers to five per cent or less of the population from 13 per cent now. “We will offer a million smokers new help to quit. We will be funding a new national ‘swap to stop’ scheme – the first of its kind in the world.”
The government spent 68 million pounds in 2021 to 2022 on measures to get people to stop smoking, leading to 100,000 smokers quitting, and easing the strain on Britain’s overwhelmed National Health Service.
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