Campaigning councillors insists vapes should not be sold to under-18s
Critical committee chairman Robert Brown has hit out after it was revealed that more than a third of traders had controversially sold vapes to under-18s.South Lanarkshire Consumer and Trading Standards have revealed the results of a test purchase exercise focused on the sale of single-use vapes.Download the Lanarkshire Live app today The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
Where follow-up visits were conducted, 11 of the 44 outlets repeatedly sold vapes to young volunteers without asking for age ID.Councillor Brown, Chair of the Community and Enterprise Resources Committee which considered the report last month, said: “The level of sales of vapes to under-age volunteers in the last year was very disappointing, and would appear to reflect a disregard for the legislation by some retailers.
“Additionally, if the use of spot fines is not deterrent enough, we will have to consider using our statutory powers to escalate the level of enforcement all the way to the Procurator Fiscal if necessary.”
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