Vapes
Sale of disposable vapes in north will be banned from June 1 2025
New guidance for businesses currently stocking single-use vape products will be published later this month
MPs to vote on smoking ban and vape sales ‘deliberately targeted at children’
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill prevents anyone born after January 1 2009 from legally smoking by gradually raising the age at which tobacco can be bought.
Tory MP: Disposable vapes ban will lead to children ‘smoking behind bike sheds’
Environment minister Mary Creagh said most people who use single-use vapes will either ‘stop smoking, switch to reusable vapes, or non-vape products’.
MPs back plan to rid nation of ‘toy-like’ vapes which are ‘menace on streets’
Five million vapes are thrown away each week, equivalent to eight every second, according to environment minister Mary Creagh.
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Vaping is acting as a gateway to smoking cigarettes for many young people
Chancellor’s vape tax increase will ‘hurt working people’, says Labour MP
Mary Glindon argued the increase, which will occur in October 2026, is ‘unsustainably high’.
NI business owner fined more than £2,000 for selling vapes to children
Test purchasing confirmed the shop was selling nicotine inhaling products to under 18s
One million people who never regularly smoked now vape in England – study
The increase was largely driven by young adults, with an estimated 14% of 18 to 24-year-olds who never regularly smoked now vaping, researchers say.
Proportion of women aged 16-24 vaping daily highest since current records began
It also emerged that around 5.1 million people aged 16 or over are likely to have vaped every day or occasionally in 2023.
Major US retailer to join the likes of Walmart and Target in ending tobacco sales
Stop & Shop will stop selling tobacco products from August 31