Action for Smoking and Health (ASH) chief executive Deborah Arnott has called for more funding to enforce laws against sales to minors and take action on child-friendly packaging and labeling, as well as promotion on social media, after a report emerged that the number of Children who use electronic cigarettes.
Experts have warned that vapes are attractive to children because they are often brightly colored, cheap, and contain fruity flavours.
While it's illegal to sell vapes to under 18s, social media posts from teens show off the new vapes and discuss flavours, which include pink lemonade, strawberry banana and mango.
Tik Tok was most frequently cited as a source of online promotion (cited by 45 percent of kids), followed by Instagram (31 percent) and Snapchat (22 percent).
Underage smokers said they were more likely to get a vape from stores (47 percent), while 10 percent bought it online and 43 percent got it from someone else.
A report published in the "Daily Mail" warned that the number of children using e-cigarettes regularly has almost doubled in two years, with experts blaming this rise on social networking sites such as Tik Tok, after videos showing vaping tricks were investigated by dozens. Millions of views.
About 52 percent of young adults who used single-use e-cigarettes said it was their preferred product — a significant increase from 7 percent who said the same in 2020.