Should NHS hospitals offer e-cigarettes and vaping lounges?

Public Health England suggests initiative in bid to reduce number of smokers

A smoker is engulfed by vapours during lunch time in central London
Just under three million people now vape in the UK
(Image credit: Photo credit: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images)

Hospitals in England are being advised by Public Health England (PHE) to sell e-cigarettes and let patients vape indoors - advice that has met with some resistance.

Joyce Robins, of campaign group Patient Concern, told The Times that it was a bad idea to use up much-needed spaces in hospitals to create vaping areas. “Every hospital I have been in there is not an inch to spare, with people lying in corridors,” she said.

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