It comes just days after the prime minister pledged to raise the legal age for buying cigarettes in England by one year every year.
Plans to crack down on teen vaping and create a 'smoke-free generation' are due to be laid out in a government consultation published today. Among the proposals that will be consulted on include making it an offence for anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 to be sold tobacco products and restricting the flavours and appearance of vapes to make them less attractive to children.
Selling vapes to children is already illegal, but recent statistics show that cheap, colourful and sweet-flavoured vapes are targeted at youngsters. Mr Sunak said he was 'wasting no time to deliver on that promise' of creating a smoke-free generation. England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said that while vaping was less dangerous than smoking, it 'still has risks and can cause addiction'.
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