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E-cigarettes may soon be sold as life-saving medicine

Some countries ban them, but British regulators are considering electronic cigarettes on prescription – we take a puff on the evidence

By Andy Coghlan

20 February 2013

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MY HEAD is starting to swim. It’s a reminder of that buzz I used to get from smoking cigarettes 25 years ago, before I quit. There is a slight tickle at the back of my throat, but not the rasp of old. It looks like I’m smoking, but there is no smoke, just a vapour which I exhale over the heads of my colleagues here in the New Scientist office. When I suck on the “cigarette”,…

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