Health committee refuses to consider e-cigs as cessation aid…

Spain: The Chamber of Deputies Health Committee has rejected by 19 votes to 16 a proposal from the centre-right People’s Party (PP) to study whether alternatives such as e-cigarettes might be useful in smoking cessation, press reports. While the Socialist Party argued that e-cigarettes bring some health risks, the left-wing Podemos has accused the PP of favouring “pharmaceutical lobbies”. ...