Children are routinely being sold cheap disposable vaping pens online that contain as much nicotine as up to 50 cigarettes, experts have said.
A craze for brightly coloured, sweet-flavoured e-cigarettes is emerging in British schools, with TikTok and other social media sites filled with posts of young people smoking them.
Disposable vapes sold by brands such as Elf Bar and Geek Bar come in flavours such as candy floss and blue raspberry, do not require charging and filling and cost as little as £4 a pen. Teenage users have said this low price is appealing if the e-cigarettes have to be quickly disposed of to avoid detection while vaping at school.
It is illegal in the UK to sell nicotine products to anyone under the…
Katie Gibbons – The Times – 2022-06-07.
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