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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rachel Hall

Ministers urged to restrict marketing of vapes to children in England

Close up of teenager with mobile phone vaping
Rachel de Souza said many children addicted to vaping had never smoked tobacco. Photograph: Alamy

The children’s commissioner for England has urged ministers to crack down on the “insidious” marketing of vapes to young people, which is leaving them so addicted to nicotine they can’t concentrate on lessons.

Rachel de Souza said the government would be “failing a generation” if these “highly addictive and sometimes dangerous products” were allowed to become mainstream.

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