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The family of a four-year-old Wicklow girl with Cystic Fibrosis, who has been hospitalised twice in the last four months, are celebrating this week as she was finally able to receive “game-changing” modulator medicine.

Teenagers are presenting to paediatric clinics with anxiety and other symptoms associated with vaping

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Brightly coloured disposable vapes are causing Irish children and teenagers to become hooked on nicotine with potential risk to their not fully matured brains, two experts warn in a new report today.

The Royal College of Physicians strongly supports the introduction of legislation to ban disposable vapes to protect children's health.

Earlier this year, legislation was introduced to ban the sale of vaping products to under 18s.

Advice from Respiratory medicine experts calls for an urgent need to ban the use of disposable vapes.

Ireland has led the way globally with the introduction of legislation on smoking indoors. Now there is an opportunity to provide the same global leadership with legislation to protect teenagers and young people from recreational vaping

Vaping around children is potentially harmful and it would be “sensible” not to, a consultant in paediatric respiratory medicine has said. 

The RCPI's policy group on tobacco believe proposals regarding vapes and e-cigarettes should go further to ban the sale of flavoured products…