Draft legislation will aim to stop firms employing ruses to get around legislation, says health secretary

UK ministers will aim to stop firms from skirting around an upcoming law that will outlaw disposable vapes by eliminating ruses such as attaching charging points on them, the health secretary has said.

The draft legislation, being introduced in parallel with an already-announced ban on selling tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009, would be put together with the help of experts who would try to anticipate possible loopholes, Victoria Atkins added.

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