Watermelon bubble gum, blueberry sour raspberry, gummy bear, ginger cola… no, not some of the sugary treats on the shelves of your childhood sweet shop, but just a few of the flavours of electronic-cigarette liquids being bought across the country every single day.
Vaping, which is the inhaling of a vapour created by an e-cigarette, took hold in the UK in 2015, and has surged in popularity ever since. Both a smoking cessation tool and a habit in its own right, some 3.2 million adults use a vape regularly - compared with between 5.6 and 6.6 million adults who smoke cigarettes.
Now, a new government push will look to reverse those numbers and turn smokers into vapers, with the ambition to make England a smoker-free country by 2030.
