The main government proposals to reduce vaping are to: restrict vape flavours regulate vape packaging and product presentation regulate point of sale displays restrict the sale of disposable vapes introduce an age restriction for non-nicotine vapes explore further restrictions for other nicotine consumer products such as nicotine pouches prevent the industry giving out free samples of vapes to children Meanwhile, Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary told his party conference that, if elected, a Labour government would come down like a ton of bricks on the vaping industry, who have sought to addict a generation of children to nicotine with flavours like rainbow burst and cotton candy ice. Monitoring vaping in schools It will take time for the government to finalise the changes in the law and to get this passed but already UK schools have found that, like their counterparts in the US, Australia and New Zealand, they need to tackle the growing numbers of their students who are vaping right now
In the U.S., young women who identify as LGBTQ+ are up 4.8 times more likely to smoke cigarettes than their heterosexual peers
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Although the cannabis plant differs greatly from the tobacco plant, the smoke from both of these plants are actually comprised of many of the same chemicals, such as nitric oxide and aldehydes, both of which are known to cause severe health effects to exposed individuals
