The Local Government Association, which represents councils in England and Wales, is calling for the Government to ban the sale and manufacture of single use vapes such as Elf bars and Lost Mary by 2024.
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00:00 The local government association which represents councils in England and Wales
00:04 have been calling for the government to ban the sale and manufacture of single
00:09 use vapes such as Alfbaz and Los Mary by 2024. Though the government says they're
00:15 now planning it to ban them it's not yet known when this will come into effect.
00:20 Directors of Public Health in Cheshire and Merseyside's nine local council areas
00:25 have expressed their concern about the increase of the use of vapes in the
00:29 region. Health bosses are particularly concerned about the increased use of
00:34 vapes amongst children. It really doesn't look cool everyone just keeps smoking
00:39 them and it just looks really like childish yeah I'm not keen on them and
00:46 also if you're walking behind somebody that's smoking and then you just get
00:50 this woof of it's no it's not nice and I don't like it. I don't smoke myself like
00:57 I used to years ago but there's no way should be for the older people want to
01:02 pack and smoke but for the younger ones no. People originally thought it was less
01:08 bad than smoking so that's why they latched on to it and now they're sort of
01:12 realizing it's not as good as they thought it was going to be and there is
01:16 a big push to sort of cut it out the way smoking has been cut out most places you
01:20 can't vape inside the same as smoking and all that and generally I would think
01:25 it isn't encouraged by most people. As a group the directors of public health are
01:30 calling for a countrywide ban on sales of disposable vapes, additional
01:34 restrictions on advertising and marketing, a significant increase in
01:39 fines for retailers selling illicit vape products and vapes to those under the
01:44 age of 18 as well as a consultation on the licensing and regulation of them.
01:49 Councils are especially concerned by the marketing of vapes with designs and
01:53 flavors that could appeal to children in particular those with fruity flavors
01:58 and colorful child-friendly packaging. They say strict new measures to regulate
02:04 the display and marketing of vaping products in the same way as tobacco are
02:08 needed. You can see kids as young as like 10, 12 smoking them and yeah I'm not I'm
02:15 not for it to be honest and it doesn't make sense to me. Should be for older
02:20 people really, want to pack and smoke but young people know they're all they're
02:25 all doing about 14 now aren't they so and so yeah no. Especially because of the
02:29 flavors that they have sounds very much like candy and sweet and it smells nice
02:35 for them so it is unfortunate yeah. Whereas now with the vape it's more of a
02:41 how do I look, do people think I look really cool doing this on the bus or
02:47 doing this outside or doing yeah I just don't think it's if just stop it like it
02:51 just doesn't make sense to me. Local directors of public health are endorsing
02:55 the advice from England's chief medical officer. If you smoke vaping is much
03:00 safer if you don't smoke don't vape.