6 d. ago Nicotine pouches packaged like kid's sweets sold in Glasgow shop

An undercover reporter was able to buy nicotine pouches which can be up to 'ten times the strength of cigarettes'

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3 w. ago Nicotine pouches sold to children mimic sweets, says UK trading standards body

Children can buy pouches legally as they are not regulated as a specific tobacco or nicotine productNicotine pouches are being legally sold to children and are being made appealing to them with special flavours and packaging mimicking sweets, a trading standards body has said.In June, it became illegal for single-use vapes to be sold in England to tackle their widespread use by children. However, there is currently no legislation that restricts the age at which you can buy nicotine pouches. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Addictive nicotine pouches can legally be sold to children in shops

Watchdog warns there is currently no law in place to stop shops from selling nicotine pouches to children

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3 w. ago 'Addictive' nicotine pouches sold to children are replacing disposable vapes

While disposable vapes are now banned, kids are turning to equally attractive nicotine pouches- which they can technically buy legally.

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3 w. ago Shops legally selling addictive nicotine pouches to children

Trading Standards is calling for urgent regulation of the new class of addictive products sold to children following the ban of single-use vapes.

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4 w. ago 'Toxic' nicotine pouches that look like sweets cause spike in child poisonings

Poison control researchers are alarmed by the staggering rate that young kids are ingesting nicotine pouches.

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4 w. ago Number of nicotine poisonings in kids skyrockets with pouches becoming more common

There have been more than 134,000 nicotine poisonings among children younger than the age of six from 2010 to 2023, a new study finds

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