MPs launch inquiry into the safety of e-cigarettes

MPs have begun an inquiry into the health effects of e-cigarettes to see how the law could address "significant gaps" in existing research.Smoking is believed to cost the NHS roughly £2bn a year, although some warn it could be as much as £5bn, and approximately 80% of the packet price for cigarettes is made of taxation designed to counteract this cost.The Royal College of Physicians issued a report last year stating that public health policy should encourage tobacco users to switch t