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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Nick Sommerlad & Nicole Wootton-Cane

Illegal vapes with as much nicotine as 100 cigarettes sold to girl, 13, in Manchester, investigation reveals

A 13-year-old girl was able to purchase handfuls of illegal vapes containing as much nicotine as 100 cigarettes in the space of just one day.

It is illegal to sell vapes with nicotine to anybody under the age of 18. But when 13-year-old Rose tried to make the purchases from a host of shops in Manchester city centre, almost half sold her vapes containing the highly addictive drug.

Up to one in four vaping shops are selling super-sized vapes with illegal amounts of nicotine to kids, a Mirror investigation has found.

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