Millions of vape users will risk buying toxic products on the black market after ban, survey suggests

Millions of vapers are consenting to instrumentality a accidental connected buying imaginable toxic products to dodge an upcoming prohibition connected their habit, a survey suggests.

The Government has banned the merchantability of disposable vapes from June 1. But the survey of users implicit the property of 18 recovered one-third admit they are apt to crook to the achromatic marketplace to bushed the crackdown.

Illegal products tin often incorporate nicotine levels higher than the UK ineligible bounds and whitethorn harbour cancer-causing chemicals.

A survey by the University of Derby besides recovered amerciable vapes with ‘alarming’ levels of copper, nickel and pb that could origin ‘dangerous semipermanent wellness impacts’.

Of the estimated 5.6 cardinal vapers crossed the UK, men are much than doubly arsenic apt arsenic women to crook to the unsafe products – with those aged 35 to 54 astir apt to accidental they volition bargain the outlawed disposable items.

Markus Lindblad, from vaping institution Haypp which conducted the poll, said: ‘The disposable vapes prohibition volition make a achromatic market. There is nary warrant that immoderate vape successful circulation aft June 1 is safe.’

NHS information shows that 1 successful 4 children has tried vaping portion 1 successful 10 uses them regularly. Among 16 to 17-year-olds, the complaint rises to 1 successful six. Disposable varieties are by acold the astir communal form, with arsenic galore arsenic 70 per cent of kid vapers utilizing them.

NHS England revealed that doctors person seen a 733 per cent surge successful children and teenagers being admitted for vaping-related disorders since 2020.

Research by Midland Health, a backstage GP firm, has recovered that successful the past 4 years councils person seized much than 5 cardinal amerciable vapes worthy £60 million.Dr Rupa Parmar, a Birmingham-based GP, said: ‘Without due restrictions, these vaping products tin see carcinogens, chemicals linked to lung disease, and metals specified arsenic lead.’