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Young vapers ‘at risk of breathing problems and becoming smokers’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Hirom@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

include plain packaging, moving vapes out of sight in shops, and restrictions on vape flavour names to move away from names inspired by sweets, desserts and alcohol in favour of simpler names such as “apple”.

These are sensible regulations. And they seem easy enough to implement, this is about mostly marketing/packaging. I hope other countries follow.

I'm horrified to see so much products with marketing/packging clearly aimed at teenagers inside vape and newsgents shops, and online. The tabaco industry is trying hard to attract new young customer, and they're ruining people's health in the process.