‘Children deserve to lead long, happy, healthy lives, which is why I am unequivocal in my view that no child should be smoking or vaping.’ In the past year alone, there have been 15 cases of children 9 and under being admitted to hospital for vaping.
Boys and girls as young as primary school age are ending up in hospital due to excessive vaping.
Professor Andy Bush, a paediatric chest physician at the Royal Brompton Hospital in west London, told Sky News he is ‘absolutely horrified’ by the statistics. ‘If a teenager starts smoking cigarettes, probably the worst that’s going to happen to them is they’re going to be sick and throw up behind the bike shed.
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