Listen: MPs back call to relax rules around smoking e-cigarettes in public
"A committee of MP's is calling for new official approach to 'electronic cigarettes making it easier. For people to vape in. Public places the science and technology committee says e cigarettes helped tens of thousands of smokers to quit tobacco each year Yeah this week researchers at Birmingham. University warned that he cigarettes might not be safe as people think the department of health says it will study the evidence here's our health editor. Hugo the Coleman science and technology committee says e cigarettes are often overlooked by the NHS as a means of helping smokers to give. Up tobacco it's report, argues that e cigarettes are not as significant gateway for young people to move into smoking and, there's no significant risk of secondhand inhalation it adds that there's evidence people with mental health conditions a more than. Twice as likely to smoke is the rest of the population and the committee says it's extraordinary that a third of mental health trusts in England ban the use of e cigarettes. The department of health and social care said it would consider the evidence, or cigarette use and the reports"