The personal import scheme enables Australians to ask a medical doctor to apply to the Therapeutics Goods Administration to allow the importation of up to a 3-month supply of nicotine for use in e-cigarettes for therapeutic purposes [119, 130]
By comparison smoking is confirmed as the single biggest cause of preventable death in the UK, which according to the NHS directly or indirectly causes around 75,000 deaths every year (Avg 200 deaths per day)
With the increasing number of e-cigarette users in the Philippines, tobacco control researchers in the Philippines and other low- and middle-income countries where e-cigarettes are legally sold and available in the market should include assessing the impact of health warnings and plain packaging of e-cigarette products in their research agenda
Further studies are needed to confirm the effects of smoking cessation on endothelial function using an appropriate study design, several smoking cessation methods, short- to long-term follow-up periods, different grades of smoking status, and diverse subjects including subjects with advanced atherosclerosis and healthy subjects in large clinical trials
