Today's front page leads with 'Vape Crusader' Laura Young warning the potential ban on disposable e-cigs can't be allowed to run out of puff. scotpapers Read More:
Scots “vape crusader” Laura Young has hailed an SNP government review into banning disposable e-cigs.
Ms Young - whose campaigning to raise awareness of the pollution blight caused by throwaway e-cigs has seen her dubbed the “vape crusader” - said the inquiry was “exciting”. Launching our campaign to scrap disposable vapes, we told earlier this week how 1.3million devices are chucked away every single week in the UK - the equivalent of two a second.
In Scotland, most single-use plastics were banned last year - but vapes were unaffected, and disposable brands have soared 14-fold in popularity since 2021 with users typically young people It comes as the Scottish Government is also working on an updated Tobacco Action Plan which is expected to report in the autumn and will consider a “range of interventions” to reduce smoking and vaping among youngsters.
“In the meantime, we would urge everyone who uses these products to make sure they are disposed of properly.” “Thanks to the brilliant work of Laura Young, known as the ‘vape crusader’, our concerns of the impact of disposable vapes on our ocean are being heard.
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