Britain’s drug regulators have given the go-ahead for a British American Tobacco (BAT) e-cigarette to be sold as a medicine for quitting smoking, the first such product to be given a drug licence in the UK.
The decision to licence the e-Voke product means it can now be prescribed on the NHS for patients trying to give up smoking.
“We want to ensure licensed nicotine-containing products – including e-cigarettes – which make medicinal claims are available and meet appropriate standards of safety, quality and efficacy to help reduce the harms from smoking,” the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said on Monday.
It said the licence was granted recently and a spokesman told Reuters it was issued towards the end of last year.
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