Labour pledges to "tackle the scourge of vaping"

[Toby iVapour]

This has been in many of the news outlets this week...

UK vows to clamp down on ‘scourge of vaping’

The UK government will ‘tackle the scourge of vaping’ once it has clamped down on smoking, a senior minister has said.

www.clearingtheair.eu

The UK government will ‘tackle the scourge of vaping’ once it has clamped down on smoking, a senior minister has said.

War on ‘scourge of vaping’ announced as Labour doubles down on outdoor smoking ban

A cabinet minister has doubled down on Labour’s plans to ban smoking in beer gardens and said the government will have a war on ‘the scourge of vaping’

www.independent.co.uk

Labour’s puritanical attack on vaping

On Times Radio this morning Lucy Powell, Leader of the House of Commons, said that she wanted the government to ‘tackle the scourge of vaping.

www.spectator.co.uk

 

[DMAN]

Why don't they talk about the scourge of smoking, and how vaping can help to beat it?

 

[MrDJ]

also in papers today to ban smoking at the races so i guess that will later include vaping.

 

[andipandi]

also in papers today to ban smoking at the races so i guess that will later include vaping.

Banning vaping (in public) will run alongside whatever they have planned for where smoking will be banned. IE: beer gardens, pavements, smoking areas etc. I noticed a Puritanical approach mentioned in one article, yes, that is, and always has been labours way. Now comes with knobs on, via Starmer and Streeting.

 

[Ment]

Why don't they talk about the scourge of smoking, and how vaping can help to beat it?

Too logical. Common sense and logic are dirty words, it's all about emotion.

 

[Toby iVapour]

Streeting vows to toughen laws on vaping and smoking

‘Ambitious’ new bill will mean children growing up today will be first smoke-free generation, says Health Secretary

www.telegraph.co.uk

Wes Streeting has vowed to toughen up laws on vaping and smoking, with a “more ambitious” bill than the Conservatives.

Mr Streeting said ministers intend to go further than Rishi Sunak’s proposals to phase out smoking, by raising the legal age of sale of cigarettes, and clamping down on vaping, in a bill which will be introduced before Christmas.

“When the smoking bill is introduced, it will be more ambitious than the bill introduced by the previous government, and crucially, it will mean that children growing up in our country today will be the first ever smoke-free generation,” he said.

Hmm.. I wonder how they plan to make it harsher...

 

[Netvaper]

Meanwhile nothing about the scourge of NHS waiting lists then.

 

[zouzounaki]

sounds a bit extreme. “tackle the scourge”. travis buckle style.