A new £45million scheme to give smokers vape 'starter kits' could backfire and see them trade one addiction for another for which the long term health impacts are still unknown a GP has claimed.

Britain is deploying the world’s first “swap to stop" scheme where the government will provide cigarette smokers a vape starter kit. The effort aims to reduce the country’s cigarette smokers.

FILE - A Juul electronic cigarette starter kit is seen at a smoke shop on Dec. 20, 2018, in New York. Attorneys are expected to deliver closing arguments Monday, April 17, 2023, in Minnesota's ...

While e-cigarettes are safer than cigarettes, ... The intervention group got the counseling plus two “e-cigarette starter kits” with a choice of free e-liquid flavors and nicotine concentrations.

FILE - A Juul electronic cigarette starter kit is seen at a smoke shop on Dec. 20, ... E-cigarettes aren't safe but aren't deadly either, he said; they're somewhere in between.

More than two out of every five smokers who redeemed a voucher for a free e-cigarette starter kit had stopped smoking within a month as part of a pilot scheme designed to help people quit. Smokers in ...

A Juul electronic cigarette starter kit is seen at a smoke shop on Dec. 20, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is slated to lead ...

FILE - A Juul electronic cigarette starter kit is seen at a smoke shop on Dec. 20, 2018, in New York. Attorneys are expected to deliver closing arguments Monday, April 17, 2023, in Minnesota's ...

In total, 668 participants were referred to the scheme between December 2019 and July 2021, and 340 of them redeemed a voucher for a vape starter kit. Of the 340 who redeemed a voucher, 143 ...

A pilot scheme in Norfolk recorded that 42% of smokers who redeemed a voucher for a free e-cigarette starter kit had quit at four weeks. (Nick Ansell/ PA) The mean age of referrals was 41.4 years old.