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Smoking charity calls for action on youth vaping legislation

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On June 28, 2023, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) gave evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee’s topical session on vaping. ASH is urging the committee to call the government to account for ignoring three years of calls for tougher regulation of e-cigarettes.

The charity set out its top three recommendations for the committee:

Deborah Arnott, chief executive, ASH said, “ASH warned the government three years ago about the legislative loophole allowing free vapes to be handed out to children. No action was taken. After our surveys showed the number of children vaping growing year-on-year, we called again and again for tougher regulation. Still no response. Inaction was understandable during Brexit, then covid and the ministerial merry-go-round last year, but not any longer. Recent government announcements that they will be ‘reviewing the rules’ is not good enough, tougher regulation is needed now, it mustn’t be kicked into the long grass yet again.”

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