PM told vaping problem is getting worse during school visit
Pupils told the Prime Minister the problem of vaping was getting worse when he talked to teenagers during a school visit. Rishi Sunak was at Haughton Academy in Darlington to talk about proposals to make e-cigarettes less attractive to children. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 You look at these things and they literally look like sweets.
00:04 That's a big part of the problem.
00:06 How do you find it out?
00:08 It's targeting the youngsters. I was really pleased when I heard on the news this morning that you decided to do that
00:13 and push forward with it. Excellent news.
00:16 Have you been seeing something, those of you who are parents,
00:19 is there something that you've spoken about with your kids or something you've seen at home or their friends?
00:24 Things around how to influence people around vaping. What do you think we should be doing?
00:29 Banned them from the shops.
00:31 Banned them from the shops, yeah.
00:33 So they can't be appealing to children.
00:36 They shouldn't be designed to be appealing to children.
00:39 And as you say, the packaging should make you think, actually be a bit clearer about some of the risks involved.
00:44 And when you're out and about and you see people, are they getting it from shops, are they getting it from individuals?
00:50 Both really.
00:52 Both? Yeah.
00:54 Addiction.
00:55 People who are just getting addicted to it.
00:57 And they can't stop.
00:59 And they can't stop, yeah, which is why we've got to stop them starting in the first place.
01:02 I think this is a really important point at the top, this first one, because these are really new.
01:07 These vapes are really new, so we just don't know.