Taxpayer-funded vape kits: swapping one health risk for another

The UK government plans to offer free vape starter kits to 1million smokers aiming to help them quit. But evidence shows that vaping is not without harms and risks – it is potentially irresponsible to recommend smokers switch to vaping, especially when other medically proven methods to quit smoking exist, 2 professors of the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences posit.