MILLIONS of Brits are facing a ban on vaping, The Sun on Sunday can reveal.
They will be hit if World Health Organisation recommendations on outlawing e-cigarettes are adopted.
The proposal would spell bad news for 2.4million vapers across the UK and the 2,000 businesses which rely on a sector worth more than £2billion.
And experts condemned the idea, with one saying it would drive up deaths from tobacco.
Clive Bates, a tobacco harm expert and the former director of anti-smoking group ASH, said: “The advice is completely irresponsible and bizarre.
“If governments take it seriously, they will be protecting the cigarette trade, encouraging smoking and adding to a huge toll of cancer, heart and lung disease. Something has gone badly wrong here.”
Details of the potential ban have emerged from a report published by WHO’s tobacco regulatory committee.
It targets vapes which allow “the user to control device features and liquid ingredients”.
This method, called open-vaping, is the preferred way for 77 per cent of the 3.2million Brits who use e-cigs.
Ben Griffiths – The Sun – Feb 27, 2021.
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Open vaping no its normal vaping the problem showed up when you introduced these juul vape pods that are killing people the method you are describing is what I used to slowly and completely take out the nicotine to 0 and eventually quit vaping aswell