UK study puts a cash figure on potential NHS saving if half of smokers switched

The UK National Health Service (NHS) would save over £500m a year if half the smokers in England switched to vaping, according to a study by Brunel University London.

“Cancer, heart diseases, stroke, chronic bronchitis and emphysema are the five main disease categories caused by smoking cigarettes,” said business economic expert Francesco Moscone, who authored the study. “Such illnesses put significant burden on the NHS, which we know is already under increasing pressure.”