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Disposable vapes to be banned in UK as part of drive to curb youth vaping (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Plans to make vaping less appealing also to include restricting fruity flavours and introducing plain packaging

Ministers are to ban disposable vapes as part of a UK-wide drive to curb youth vaping.

The government is also seeking to make vaping less appealing to children by restricting sweet and fruity flavours, introducing plain packaging and making displays less visible in shops, under newly announced powers. The changes are expected to come into effect towards the end of this year or early 2025.

Announcing the move, Rishi Sunak said: “As any parent or teacher knows, one of the most worrying trends at the moment is the rise in vaping among children, and so we must act before it becomes endemic.”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I could be wrong but I think a better solution to this would be education. They taught us the dangers of smoking tobacco when I was in school. Why don't we do the same for vapes?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While education helped sure, the real killer was changing smoking from being cool to being a stigma and laws stopping smoking from most public places.

Smoking was changed from being cool to being gross. It makes you smell, it makes kissing you gross, etc etc. Vapes seem to have taken away some of those issues that really pushed the social stigma.

Add to it that nicotine free vapes exist and people use those, so it's not the same singular target as tobacco. What you don't want is something that can be easily debunked making it seem like it's not that bad. (See the many stories of folks trying harder drugs because the DARE programs told them marijuana would be the same as LSD, only it's not).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You make a good point. Never thought of that way.