The ban on the sale of single-use disposable vapes will come into force on Sunday through the United Kingdom, aimed at protecting the health of children and the environment.
This means that stores and supermarkets will no longer be able to store them – but they can always sell rechargeable or rechargeable devices.
The disposable vapes were cited as a key engine in the increase in vaping of young people, while each year five million vapes are thrown.
The ministers predict that this will have a significant impact, but health experts claim that new regulations are necessary to combat the vaping of young people.
Retailers in England and Wales who have an offense on the ban are faced with a fine of £ 200 for the first offense with fines or a potentially unlimited prison for those who have repeatedly redone.
The ban was announced for the first time for England and Wales by the previous conservative government, but the law was not promulgated before the general elections last summer.
The work then pushed with that.
Scotland and Northern Ireland introduced their own bomesome, timed to coincide with that of England and Wales.
The use of the vape has increased rapidly in the past decade with 9% of the British public buying and now uses electronic cigarettes.
The latest figures suggest that one in four steam uses disposable versions, although this proportion has dropped since the announcement of the ban.
And although it is illegal to sell vapes to anyone under the age of 18, disposable vapes, often sold in smaller and more colorful packaging than rechargeable vaporizers, were cited as an important factor in the rise of vaping of young people.
Currently, a vape in seven 18 to 24 years old, but has never smoked.
Vaping is significantly less harmful than smoking, but it has not been there for long enough for its long -term risks to be known, according to the NHS.
The environmental impact is considerable. Single -use vapes are difficult to recycle and are generally found in discharges where their batteries can flee harmful chemicals such as battery acid, lithium and mercury in the environment, the government said.
The batteries launched in household waste also causes hundreds of fires in trucks and waste processing centers each year.
The Ministry of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs estimates that nearly five million single -use vapes have been strewn or thrown into general waste each week last year.
The Minister of the Environment, Mary Creagh, said: “For too long, single -use vapes have withered our streets as a litter and hung our children to nicotine. It ends today.
“The government is calling time on these unpleasant devices.”
But the action on the director general of smoking and health, Hazel Cheeseman, questioned what impact the prohibition would have been, highlighting new kits of rechargeable vape on the market that seem similar to those for single use.
She said that it would not be that the Tobacco and Vape Bill, which includes powers to regulate marketing, brand image and advertising, has come to power that the question of vaping of young people could really be addressed.
“Their call is motivated by bright colors, wide availability and cheap prices,” she said.
“New regulations will hope, hope to combat environmental impact, but the government will need additional regulations to treat the appeal of products to adolescents.”
She said it was an act of balancing because vapes were an important tool to help people leave.
“Vaping is much less harmful than smoking and is the most popular help to stop in the United Kingdom,” she added.
John Dunne, of the UK Vaping Industry Association, said that the prohibitions were “not the answer”.
He said he was concerned about the fact that a black market in single -use vapes could develop and that some people may be tempted to return to smoking cigarettes.
“The disposables played a huge role in reducing smoking levels in adults to record low levels. This is why we see storage in the head of the prohibition,” he added.
Scott Butler, executive director of Material Focus, an independent non -profit organization, said that he was still concerned that vapes are always difficult to recycle and reuse.
He said customers and businesses should demand sustainable options.
“Given the binning and the creeping tramp that we already see, will we see a behavior change? Only if producers, importers and retailers will intensify and respect their long existing legal obligations to provide and pay for overhaul and recycling,” he said.
