Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of potential links between vape use and cardiac arrests.

Evidence suggests that, in the short and medium term, vaping is less harmful than smoking and can be an effective quit aid for adult smokers. However, vaping is not risk-free and the long-term health effects are still emerging. Children and adult non-smokers should therefore never vape.

While vaping may result in short term physiological changes, such as increases in heart rate and blood pressure, the current evidence base does not identify a causal link between vaping and cardiac arrest.

The Government will continue to monitor emerging evidence closely, including through the landmark 10-year Adolescent Health Study, which will assess the long-term impact of vaping on young people’s health and wellbeing, alongside wider influences on adolescent health.