Vaping: BMA to review effects of “growing public health epidemic”

The BMA will review the dangers posed by e-cigarettes, after its annual representative meeting passed a motion warning that vaping was a “growing public health epidemic.”

The motion, which was passed by the meeting in Liverpool on 5 July, called on the BMA’s Board of Science to rereview the dangers of vaping, and discuss restrictions on marketing and cracking down on illegal sales to children. The BMA’s last position paper on vaping was published in 2017.1

The motion urged the board to consider whether doctors should include history of e-nicotine use as a “regular and essential” part of patient history and examination. 

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Source: BMJ, 5 July 2023