France planning to ban disposable vapes in effort to combat smoking

France’s prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, is concerned disposable vapes are targeting children and are a gateway to smoking. Photograph: Yaroslav Litun/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Disposable vapes will be banned in France as part of a national plan to combat smoking, the prime minister said on Sunday.

Élisabeth Borne told the broadcaster RTL that the government would “soon present a new national plan to fight against smoking with, in particular, the prohibition of disposable electronic cigarettes, the famous ‘puffs’ which give bad habits to young people”.