For this session, use our support for smokers article, as well as other sources of information, to strengthen your understanding of the evidence base for the risks and benefits of e-cigarettes and the various expert views. This will give you more insight and information to pass on to your customers. You can use other information sources that you may have in the pharmacy, such as other training material, articles or websites. For further inspiration, visit the websites listed in the ‘information sources’ section.

You will find plenty of information, including expert opinion, about e-cigarettes in the preceding support for smokers article. In order to make it useful and relevant to your work, discuss:

• Do you think e-cigarettes help people to reduce smoking? Do you think that pharmacies should sell them?
• What is your view about the regulation of e-cigarettes? Do you think they should be licensed or remain as consumer products? Will your pharmacy stock only licensed products or a wider range?
• What are the restrictions placed on the advertising of e-cigarettes?
• Identify six health benefits of stopping smoking and six health risks of continuing to smoke
• What are the differences between a nicotine inhalator and an e-cigarette?