Disposable vapes will be banned across Britain by next summer. The law is being introduced in a bid to crackdown on schoolchildren getting hooked on e-cigarettes and prevent littering. Culture secretary Lisa Nandy said the government hopes the new law will "break the cycle of more children and young people taking up vaping" as the habit can have "harmful effects on health and wellbeing." Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We hope that it will break the cycle of not just more and more children and young people taking up vaping,
00:06we've seen a triple-fold increase in that in the last three years,
00:09but the really alarming trend of more and more children and young people doing that at an earlier age.
00:14We know that it's a habit that can last a lifetime and it can have harmful effects on health and well-being
00:20and we think by banning single-use disposable vapes that we'll be able to help break that cycle
00:26because that's where most young people find their entry point into vaping comes from.
00:30We'll obviously keep the policy under review but we believe that the evidence is clear
00:35that young people are getting into vaping at a much much younger age and often permanently in larger numbers
00:42and they're doing through single-use disposable vapes,
00:46not least because they're cheaper and therefore easier to get hold of.
00:49We think this will have a significant impact in helping to break that cycle.