Política del Reino Unido: Burnham niega impedir que los ministros hablen sobre planes de relación más estrecha con la UE – en directo

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Prime minister wrote to ministers saying he did not want them to ‘advocate for specific options or opine on the likely outcome of the process’Selling nicotine-free vapes to children under the age of 18 has become illegal from today, the government has said.Children were already banned from buying vapes containing nicotine. But, under the Tobacco and Vapes Act, shops across the UK will now be banned from selling nicotine-free vapes, and nicotine pouches, to children.Vaping can be a way to help established adult smokers who are already addicted to nicotine from tobacco to swap to a less dangerous product. Vaping is considered safer than smoking, but that is a low bar. Vapes should therefore never be used by children or non-smokers.Some children have already come to harm from bad reactions to vapes. The long-term health harms of vaping in today’s children will only become clear over time. They are however unlikely to be good; inhaling multiple, often heated, chemicals into the lungs may well do irreversible harm. Continue reading...