Half of shops selling vapes were happy to sell units containing as much nicotine as 100 cigarettes to a 13-year-old girl, despite the law banning them for under 18s. The Mirror sent the undercover shopper to 16 retailers and almost half sold her vapes containing the highly addictive drug.
Up to one in four vaping shops are selling super-size vapes with illegal amounts of nicotine to children, the investigation has found. Four of them sold the girl vapes with 3,500 or more puffs - which contain up to five times the legal amount of nicotine - for as little as £10.
Three more shops sold her regular legal disposable vapes, with some retailers offering her discounts and only one of the seven that sold her vapes asking if she was over 18.
