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An increasing number of European nations are taking steps to prohibit disposable electronic cigarettes, a product that has gained significant popularity among
France joins several other European countries that are trying to stop children using e-cigarettes.
### Rates fall but “not quickly enough” to achieve target Office for National Statistics data show that 12.9% of UK adults smoke cigarettes,1 the lowest proportion of current smokers since records began in 2011. But the charity ASH warned that rates were not falling quickly enough to achieve the government’s ambition of 5% or less by 2030. Deborah Arnott, ASH chief executive, said, “Today’s figures are a wake-up call. The government must step up its support to smokers, for example by reinvesting in the vital campaigns to motivate smokers to quit and discourage youth uptake, which hav...
Recent research found that more than five million single-use vapes are being disposed of in the UK every week, which is a fourfold increase from 2022.
Westminster and Scotland are considering ban on disposable vapes amid claims they are marketed to children and are damaging to the environment.