{"id":26270,"date":"2023-06-05T11:39:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T15:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/?p=26270"},"modified":"2023-06-05T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T15:39:59","slug":"london-anti-smoking-organizations-support-vaping-as-smoking-cessation-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/archives\/26270","title":{"rendered":"LONDON, UK [Anti-Smoking Organizations Support Vaping As Smoking Cessation Aid]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-offset-key=\"9vqvj-0-1\">\u00a0&#8220;Directors of public health in London have joined others in urging those working with adult smokers to encourage them to <\/span><span data-offset-key=\"9vqvj-0-2\">swap cigarettes for vapes to help them stop smoking<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"9vqvj-0-3\">. The London Tobacco Alliance, a partnership created to accelerate efforts to eliminate smoking in London, has published its position on the <span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"><strong>use of <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\"><strong>nicotine vapes as an aid to help adults quit smoking<\/strong><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"9vqvj-0-5\">. The statement also supports recently announced measures to make vaping less accessible and appealing to children. The alliance, which includes the London Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH), argues that alongside free behavioural support and licensed stop smoking aids, <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ffcc00\" data-offset-key=\"9vqvj-0-6\">nicotine vapes play a \u2018significant role\u2019 in reducing the harm caused by tobacco<\/span><\/strong><span data-offset-key=\"9vqvj-0-7\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x1fey0fg\"><span data-offset-key=\"9vqvj-1-0\">ARTICLE LINK:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Anti-smoking-alliance-backs-vaping-as-quitting-aid\/56283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anti-smoking alliance backs vaping as quitting aid<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Reddit\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"LONDON%2C%20UK%20%5BAnti-Smoking%20Organizations%20Support%20Vaping%20As%20Smoking%20Cessation%20Aid%5D\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;Directors of public health in London have joined others in urging those working with adult smokers to encourage them to swap cigarettes for vapes to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent_news","category-vaping-news","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-147-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26272,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26270\/revisions\/26272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tasteyourjuice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}