, the other a cigarette and the last prefers to slot tooth-sized pouches of nicotine under his upper lip to get his fix.
“There’s research about vapes lowering your bone density ... what if in 50 years’ time people are riddled with stuff,” she says.Michelle Riley welcomes “anything to make it harder” for younger people to start smoking, but wants to see vapes targeted at the same time as cigarettes. “With this you can just do it in your bedroom, it’s too accessible and too easy ... I’d be happy to see them all banned,” she said, citing friends in Amsterdam who gave up vaping after the Netherlands outlawed e-cigarette sales as an example of why such measures could work.John Walker says although people will always find ways to circumvent bans, he supports lifting the legal cigarette-buying age to 21 because it will target social smoking.
While he acknowledges nicotine pouches have their own adverse health warnings and “they’re probably not great for your teeth”, he still sees them as “better” than regular smoking “where you’re f**king up your lungs”., says while passing this planned legislation involving tobacco and age limits should remain a priority, regulating nicotine products should remain firmly on the Government’s agenda.
“If you can delay someone’s initiation to smoking, they will be less likely to be a regular smoker later and suffer harmful effects later in life,” says Cox