fact, some smoking cessation clinics run by the nhs have handed out vaping devices, e cigarettes, but we have not got to the point where the nhs can routinely prescribe e cigarettes, so what has now happened as the medical regulator the nhra has announced a streamlined process for manufacturers to put forward devices so they can be approved or not as having a medicinal use. the nhra has said based on all the evidence available, across different health bodies, e cigarettes are less harmful to health than smoking tobacco. now this doesn t mean it s automatically going to happen. this is for england, certainly at this stage. it needs to go to the nhra, each device, and then a nice, the organisation which decides what is cost effective for the nhs and worth pursuing, also has to approve it, but it certainly seen as a step