Ban all vapes and e-cigarettes
- 72 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 120 - 1 added in the past 24hrs)
Ban the sale and use of all vapes and e-cigarettes, not just disposables, but reusable ones
Found: I am concerned about the impact of vapes and e-cigarettes on people's health and the environment.
Don’t ban flavoured e-liquids for e-cigarettes
- 54,433 Signatures
(Estimated Final Signatures: 58,460 - 48 added in the past 24hrs)
We would like the Government to not ban flavoured e-liquids for e-cigarettes. We believe the vaping industry has helped many people quit cigarettes which contain tobacco - a product which is single handily responsible for over 8 million deaths a year across the globe (estimated by WHO).
The Government responsed to this petition on 12th March 2024 (View Full Response)Found: We believe banning flavoured e-liquids will reduce incentives to switch to vaping, which can help people
Ban advertising for e-cigarettes
- Final Signatures: 52
E-cigarettes are being advertised everywhere in the UK, on billboards, magazines and newspapers as well as online. This should be banned like advertising for normal cigarettes is.
Found: The use of e-cigarettes amongst teenagers and children is skyrocketing around the UK with flavours making
Treat vapes and e-cigarettes like cigarettes and tobacco
- Final Signatures: 56
In 2010, legislation was passed to prohibit the display of tobacco and smoking related products, and to protect children from eye-catching, colourful displays. This ban came into full effect in April 2015.
In 2020, the sale of menthol cigarettes was banned in the UK to prevent young people from smoking as it was shown that the menthol flavour masked the harshness of the smoke.
The 2018 Tobacco Action Plan aims to create a tobacco free generation by 2034, but what about the highly addictive nicotine?
The Scottish Government ran a consultation in 2022 seeking views on tightening the rules on advertising and promoting vaping products.
If vapes and e-cigarettes are to be sold as a cessation tool, then make them tobacco flavoured as opposed to every colour and flavour of a sweet shop. These devices are displayed on brightly lit billboards at shop entrances, all over shop floors, and often with promotional prices encouraging multiple unit sales.
Found: Treat vapes and e-cigarettes like cigarettes and tobacco
Extend cigarette packaging rules to e-cigarettes
- Final Signatures: 109
I want the same packaging rules we have for cigarettes to be extended to e-cigarettes.
Vape packaging is often bright and attractive. I’m very concerned how it looks to our younger generation as packaging advertises the looks and flavours of e-cigarettes.
Found: Extend cigarette packaging rules to e-cigarettes
Mentions:
1: None There is a more general distribution of the use of e-cigarettes or vaping and less of a social gradient - Speech Link
2: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) Will you jog my memory on the argument that e-cigarettes are 95 per cent safer? - Speech Link
3: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) to the way that flavours and colours have been used to encourage people to pick up e-cigarettes? - Speech Link
4: None habit-forming and that e-cigarettes also feel pretty addictive. - Speech Link
5: None There are 35 countries where e-cigarettes are not available as consumer products. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) It is worth pointing out that that was some time before e-cigarettes, which are the subject of a major - Speech Link
2: Karin Smyth (Lab - Bristol South) Many colleagues will have received letters from constituents about e-cigarettes and vaping, which will - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sally-Ann Hart (Con - Hastings and Rye) Although nicotine itself is not the problem per se, the different substances found in e-liquids cause - Speech Link
2: Mark Eastwood (Con - Dewsbury) by value and volume of the vaping industry appeared to be illicit in 2022 and that almost a third of e-liquid - Speech Link
3: Gareth Johnson (Con - Dartford) although this is not happening a great deal, can now almost fully recycle the components of disposable e-cigarettes - Speech Link
4: Andrea Leadsom (Con - South Northamptonshire) 25 years ago to 3 billion cigarettes last year. - Speech Link
Apr. 04 2024
Source Page: Vaping – Youth perceptions and attitudes: evidence briefingFound: It included the f ollowing terms: “ENDS”, “e -cigarettes”, “vapes”, “vaping”, “youth”, “young people
Found: • The age of sale legislation should not include e-cigarettes (vapes).