The Scottish Government is being urged to remove vaping products from open display in stores, amid concerns that children as young as eight are…
Committee, the Scottish Green MSP said: “Many of these are products are being displayed in windows and alongside sweets, on the end of aisles, in full view of children and young people.”
She said: “They can be reached by toddlers on ends of aisles in some shops. If that was cigarettes we would rightly be outraged.“It is the same addictive ingredient that is these products too, so is there consideration to putting them behind covers.” She said: “We’ve never needed large scale nicotine cessation for children before, but that is potentially looming, and many of the nicotine replacement therapies we currently have are only licensed for children aged 12 and over, and we have anecdotally heard of children as young as eight using vapes who may need support.”health spokesman Sandesh Gulhane said he also had a “huge concern” about the “number of kids who are vaping”.
Pressing the minister for action, he said: “When will we hear about things we can put into place concretely to stop under-18s from buying vapes?Minto told the committee it “is a hugely worrying situation we’re seeing”, saying there were a “number of strands of work within this area” where the Scottish Government was involved.
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