How e-cigarettes could 'health wash' the tobacco industry, The evidence that vaping devices help people quit smoking was described in the World Health Organisation?s (WHO) recent report as ?scant and of low certainty?. Predictably, this triggered the latest round of claims and counterclaims in an ongoing, and often acrimonious, dispute about the potential of e-devices.

Tobacco giant British American Tobacco (BAT) has announced that the Voke, its first ever venture into the field of nicotine inhalers, has just received a medical license from the UK?s Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Industry analysts expect the cigarette-shaped inhaler to hit store and pharmacy shelves sometime in the first half of next year.