Shops legally selling addictive nicotine pouches to children

Nicotine pouches currently “fall between the gap” of regulation of either a tobacco or a nicotine product, meaning shops can legally sell them to a child of any age (Alamy/PA) -

Shops are legally selling addictive nicotine pouches to children just weeks after single-use vapes were banned in an effort to cut their use among young people, Trading Standards has warned.

Trading Standards officers said they had found shops displaying the pouches – often in child-friendly sweet flavours and with eye-catching packaging – in plain sight at the front of counters during visits to check they were no longer selling single-use vapes.