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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Amanda Killelea

Scandal of shops selling vapes to underage teens as health experts call for tougher laws

Health experts are demanding tougher laws on vapes after the proportion of teenagers using them almost doubled in two years.

It is illegal to sell vaping products to or buy them for anyone under 18 – but our investigation found it was easy for children to buy vapes without proving their age in as many as half the shops they visited.

In Blackburn, Lancs, teenager Abi Buckley, 17, purchased three e-cigarettes in just 30 minutes.

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