Teen boy rushed to hospital after being ‘found unconscious from vaping in school toilets’
Experts also fear thousands of young people are taking up the habit early, and potentially exposing themselves toMillions of illicit e-cigs have been seized by trading standards departments since the beginning of 2020.
They do not comply with legal regulations, meaning they could have higher nicotine concentration levels, contain banned ingredients or have oversized tanks for nicotine liquid.Kate Pike, lead officer at the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, said: "There is a significant number of illegal products on the market, which does not help when we are trying to support public health response which is to ensure the products are much safer than tobacco for smokers looking to quit.
"We know that legal compliant vapes pose a fraction of the risk of smoking but we do not know what the risk is from illegal vapes." Vaping has now become the number one behavioural issue in high schools and it is becoming widespread in primary schools as well.In June, NHS leaders sounded the alarm over a rise in the number of children
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