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While the US FDA announces a new blitz aimed at targeting E-Cig sales to minors, a UK minister has said he would consider placing e-cigarette adverts on cigarette packets.

Nearly 20% of those who quit in first half of 2017 have been successful, with e-cigarettes becoming most popular method of quitting, say UCL researchers. E-cigarettes are the most popular method of quitting nationwide, the study found.

The National Health Service in particular has contributed greatly to these amazing results. Electronic cigarettes are now recommended by the NHS as a tobacco cessation treatment. Largely thanks to this, the UK is a country with one of the lowest cigarette consumption rates per capita in Europe, which is really fantastic news!

Ministers will be monitoring the UK’s exit from the EU in order to “identify where we can sensibly deregulate without harming public health”, whilst taking a fresh look at the Tobacco Products Directive, (TPD) since it impacts e-cig regulations.

This report provides an update on the use of harm reduction in tobacco smoking, in relation to all non-tobacco nicotine products but particularly e-cigarettes. It shows that, for all the potential risks involved, harm reduction has huge potential to prevent death and disability from tobacco use, and to hasten our progress to a tobacco-free society.

For the first time, more than half of the UK's electronic-cigarette users have since given up smoking tobacco, a study suggests.

Growth in the use of E-Cigarettes in England has been associated with a higher rate of successful attempts to quit smoking, reveals a study published by The BMJ (British Medical Journal) today.