2024-01-29 09:02:04 +0000
To: Neil O'Brien parliamentary under secretary of state for primary care and public health [email protected]
A child showed me his Rainbow coloured vape he had in his hand
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Dear Neil O'Brian,
A child showed me the Rainbow coloured vape he had in his hand; Rainbow Candy was its name just like the sweets Rainbow Drops.
Through my work outside of school hours, as a crossing patrol person in a rural town, I have been increasingly concerned about the number of children in school uniforms who are vaping. Visiting several online vape shops and retailers who are selling many different sweet and confectionary flavours. Some of the products I saw are seized products by Trading Standards. There are many sweet and confectionery flavours, Elf Bar and Lost Mary products that have been removed from retail stores.
Flavours start from Gummy Bear, Pink Lemonade, Cotton Candy, and Blueberry Bubble-gum. Who are these flavours being aimed at?
Through the articles from Better Retail, it is clear that 60% of Trading Standards are concerned about sales to children. Highlighting the sweet and confectionery flavours being aimed at children and youths. CTSI Chief Executive John Herriman said, “while we recognised that vaping can be a useful quitting aid we are worried about increasing breaches of the law, with many non-compliant devices being sold on the UK streets”.
Please act and clean up this relatively new industry by,
*Dealing with vapes, E-liquids, E-cigarettes, Disposables and kits
*Stopping marketing using sweet, confectionery and dessert names that could tempt children and youths
*Making sure that all laws are being met online shops as well as retail shops
*Including looking at placement in shops, unlike tobacco these items are on the shop floor in the vision of children and youths just like sweets.
*Looking at putting these products the government are promoting behind the counter or locked away
*Making sure all warning labels are clear and displayed including health risks
https://archive.crin.org/en/library/publications/briefing-childrens-rights-and-toxics.html
"The greatest global medium of toxic exposure is polluted air, of which the main causes are: burning fossil fuels for energy, manufacturing, and transport; burning solid fuel in the home such as coal or wood; second-hand cigarette smoke; and airborne agricultural chemicals such as pesticides. Nine out of ten people on the planet are now breathing unsafe ambient air, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and four out of ten cook using open fires in the home, which produce high concentrations of pollutants. For these reasons, air pollution is responsible for five per cent of all deaths annually, according to the WHO. Air quality is worsening in affluent countries, but people in poorer countries still suffer by far the worst conditions".
Please consider the plight of the unborn child when recommending vaping to pregnant women.
Why is this important?
Letting the suppliers of such new products having nicotine, have such free reign, is causing a problem for retailers' trading standards and guardians of children. The lack of rules and regulations compared to other nicotine products needs to be addressed.
Promotion and marketing need to be closely monitored because of the tactics already used, and flavours such as sweets, confectionary, and desserts. They are all too appealing to young people.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-khan-review-making-smoking-obsolete/making-smoking-obsolete-summary?
3. Promote vaping
The government must embrace the promotion of vaping as an effective tool to help people to quit smoking tobacco. We know vapes are not a ‘silver bullet’ nor are they totally risk-free, but the alternative is far worse.
How it will be delivered
To Neil O'Brian, parliamentary under secretary of state for primary care and public health at,
[email protected]
