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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Storm Newton

Switching to vapes ‘could save NHS more than half a billion a year’, study says

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Half of England’s adult smokers making a switch to e-cigarettes could save the NHS more than £500 million per year, a study has claimed.

Researchers at Brunel University London used data from NHS Digital, the Royal College of Physicians and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to identify the prevalence of smoking in each region.

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