Survey finds growing number of English authorities offer e-cigarettes to smokers

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of local authorities in England offering e-cigarettes to smokers in a bid to help them quit smoking, according to the most recent survey from Cancer Research UK and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).

Around 40% of the local authorities surveyed now offer e-cigarettes in some form with a further 15% planning to do so in the near future. Fifteen local authorities described their provision of e-cigarettes as still in a pilot phase.