This is so shocking
“Unscrupulous businesses” are being blamed for fuelling an explosion in vaping amongst Lancashire’s children and young people.
“Children seem to be able to get hold of them and, more worryingly, manufacturers of the vapes are deliberately targeting young people. Just ask Google and you can buy – online – brightly-coloured vapes in a variety of attractive flavours, such as strawberry ice cream, watermelon and gummy bears – in fact, every flavour you can think of and they are not expensive to buy.
Calling for a £100,000 boost to the enforcement capacity of Lancashire Trading Standards, County Cllr Fillis said: “We have a great department…who have demonstrated time and time again their ability to enforce the law. Let’s back them up…because in the long term, it’s going to cost the health of our young people far more than that £100,000.”
“Disposable vapes have thus far been the most problematic – and these are the most common types of vape which are smoked by our young people, with seven in 10 [of them] in Lancashire preferring this type of vape. [They] are attractive, with bright colours, fruity flavours and their pocket money prices.
“The health risks are still not fully known. The colours and flavours are attractive, which could lead to future smokers [being created],” County Cllr Pattison warned, adding that e-cigarettes often “look like sweets”. ‘DON’T LET KIDS GET STARTED ON VAPES’ A loophole that permits the vaping industry to give free samples of its products to children in England is set to be closed under plans announced by the Prime Minister back in May to help clamp down on youth vaping.
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