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Some local authorities do offer vapes to smokers who are looking to quit.

The programme focuses on 55-74-year-old current and past smokers, who are offered a health check and, if needed, a scan.

The government said smoking also cost the economy £18bn a year in lost productivity, with smokers a third more likely to be off work sick.

When Nicorette was invented in Sweden in the late 1970s, it was the first NRT available to smokers who wanted to quit.

They are more common in older men, smokers, people with high blood pressure and people with other cardiovascular diseases.