From the end of May vaping devices will be limited to having 2ml tanks, which is smaller than a huge range of the ones currently on the market. These new restrictions will seriously affect the size of e-cigarette tanks and refill containers that vapers can use.
Fears that the public will turn to the black market are escalating across the medical community—cloned copies of vaping devices are already circulating and have their own unofficial economy.
These copies do not adhere to regulations and therefore can pose a potential threat to the health and safety of their users. As these devices are unmonitored, they may contain unknown; extreme care should be taken when ordering form unidentified websites.
A statistic printed in the Guardian stated: ‘Around six percent of Britain’s 2.9 million vapers are using e-liquids that contain more than 20 milligrams of nicotine per millilitre and which are now also banned.’ Richard Hyslop, chief executive of the Independent British Vape Trade Association, has suggested that desperate vapers may even resort to making their own higher strength e-liquid.
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The new restrictions on vaping came about soon after studies found a link between vaping as a teen and smoking as an adolescent. One small study in the US found that vaping was becoming prevalent in teenagers and was acting as a ‘one way bridge’ to future smoking. The article, published online in the Journal Tobacco Control and discussed in the British Medical Journal shares results found through the study of over 13,000 12th graders in 122 schools. They study concluded that teens and children were becoming desensitised to the health risks of smoking due to higher use of vaping.
On the opposite side of the coin, some people are outraged by the new restriction on vaping. Those who have used the devices to wean themselves off cigarettes and eventually quit for good now feel this is no longer a solution for them. Hyslop commented: ‘Many vapers start on a high level and go down the nicotine strength and end up on zero but heavy smokers now will struggle to make the switch.’ Likewise, public health expert professor Gerry Stimson, opposed the new measures, arguing that ‘vaping has helped 1.5 million give up smoking.’ In fact, Public Health England has recently found that vaping is 95 percent less harmful than smoking.
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