Found: To move the following Clause— “Licensable activities: sale by retail of tobacco products and vaping
Written Evidence Apr. 19 2024
Inquiry: Prevention in health and social careFound: The highest levels of daily vaping are among those aged 35-44 while the highest levels of overall
Written Evidence Apr. 18 2024
Committee: Environmental Audit CommitteeFound: non-compliance: The position is likely to have worsened since 2018, particularly with the addition of vaping
Written Evidence Apr. 18 2024
Committee: Environmental Audit CommitteeFound: Despite a slow-down in EEE sales, the sharp increase in disposable single-use vaping product sales
Mentions:
1: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) the Minister for that answer and hope we will hear more in that regard.The number of children who are vaping - Speech Link
Found: The government is committed to creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans her Department has to assess the impact of regulation of vape (a) flavours, (b) packaging and product presentation and (c) point of sale displays on (i) quit rates of smokers and (ii) relapse rates of smokers who have switched to vaping.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The health advice on vaping is clear, if you don’t smoke, don’t vape, and children should never vape. However, youth vaping has tripled in the last three years, and one in five children have now used a vape.
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill will crack down on youth vaping by providing powers to regulate flavours, displays, and packaging for vapes and nicotine pouches. It will ban free vape samples being given to children, and introduce an age of sale for non-nicotine vapes.
In doing this, we must strike the right balance between reducing the appeal of vapes to children while ensuring vapes remain attractive and available to adult smokers as a quit aid. This will be carefully considered in the development of any specific restrictions, and further consultation will take place before introducing any regulations. As stated in Parliament during the second reading of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, we intend to hold the consultation on the regulations before the end of this Parliament, if practicable. We will also undertake an impact assessment to consider the potential impact of these regulations on smokers as well as other groups.
Asked by: Adam Afriyie (Conservative - Windsor)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her legislative proposals on vaping on trends in the level of (a) smokers who will quit and (b) ex-smokers who will relapse.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The health advice on vaping is clear, if you don’t smoke, don’t vape, and children should never vape. However, youth vaping has tripled in the last three years, and one in five children have now used a vape.
The Tobacco and Vapes Bill will crack down on youth vaping by providing powers to regulate flavours, displays, and packaging for vapes and nicotine pouches. It will ban free vape samples being given to children, and introduce an age of sale for non-nicotine vapes.
In doing this, we must strike the right balance between reducing the appeal of vapes to children while ensuring vapes remain attractive and available to adult smokers as a quit aid. This will be carefully considered in the development of any specific restrictions, and further consultation will take place before introducing any regulations. As stated in Parliament during the second reading of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, we intend to hold the consultation on the regulations before the end of this Parliament, if practicable. We will also undertake an impact assessment to consider the potential impact of these regulations on smokers as well as other groups.
Apr. 17 2024
Source Page: Tobacco & Vapes Bill Second ReadingFound: quite sure where they are going on the smoking legislation, but I am grateful for their support on vaping
Mentions:
1: Carlaw, Jackson (Con - Eastwood) and Action on Smoking and Health (Scotland)—known as ASH Scotland—Forest, representatives of the UK vaping - Speech Link