Prof Andrew Bush, a consultant paediatric chest physician at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals, said: I am concerned that we are sleepwalking into a public health catastrophe with a generation of children hooked on nicotine. There are concerns about the long-term health effects of vaping and that many of the products on sale in the UK are illicit and may contain banned chemicals or super-strength nicotine
We know that the single greatest preventable cause of premature mortality in people with severe mental illness is smoking cigarettes (Brown et al, 2010)
The company has enjoyed growing revenues in recent years, boosted by its pharmacy services business and prescription drug sales
Data availability The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available in the University of Bath repository Scripts are available at the protocol can be found at References Reitsma MB, Kendrick PJ, Ababneh E, Abbafati C, Abbasi-Kangevari M, Abdoli A, et al
2011;300(4):H151829