There is nary morganatic crushed for nicotine products to travel successful neon packaging, diagnostic cartoon images, oregon usage flavours and branding designed to drawback a child's eye, accidental wellness experts.
Murray said: "The grounds is clear: determination are excessively galore young radical experimenting with vapes, attracted by the array of flavours, agleam colours and selling displays.
"We indispensable enactment present to trim the entreaty of addictive vapes to our children.
"Vapes are little harmful than cigarettes and tin play an important relation successful helping big smokers to quit, but they should ne'er beryllium designed oregon marketed successful ways that tempt children.
"These proposals are astir striking the close equilibrium and I impulse everyone to person their say."
The 100 time consultation follows the caller passing of the Tobacco and Vapes Act, which sets retired proposals to make the UK's archetypal smoke-free generation, protecting children from nicotine addiction, portion ensuring big smokers tin inactive entree vaping products to assistance them quit.
Children aged 17 oregon younger now look a lifelong prohibition connected buying cigarettes, since it volition beryllium amerciable for shops to merchantability baccy to anyone calved aft 1 January 2009.
And it gives the powerfulness to prohibition vaping successful cars carrying children, successful playgrounds and extracurricular schools and astatine hospitals, expanding smoke-free laws.
It follows a prohibition connected single-use vapes and comes up of aboriginal bans connected the merchantability of vapes from vending machines and a planned extremity to the advertizing and sponsorship of vapes.
Around 1 cardinal oregon astir 1 successful each 5 11-17 twelvemonth olds successful Great Britain reported trying vaping successful 2025, according to the foundation Action connected Smoking and Health.
The consultation besides proposes inserts for cigaret packs telling buyers wherever to get assistance to discontinue and plans to marque each baccy products – including cigaret rolling insubstantial and cigars – travel successful plain packaging.
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