Publication - Impact assessment

Prohibition of the sale and supply of single-use vapes: child rights and wellbeing impact assessment - interim stage 2

Published: 2 April 2024
Directorate: Environment and Forestry Directorate, +1 more … Population Health Directorate
Part of: Environment and climate change, Health and social care
ISBN: 9781836011262

The interim stage 2 child rights and wellbeing impact assessment for the proposed prohibition of the sale and supply of single-use vapes.

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Footnotes

1 Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping consultation: government response - GOV UK - Feb 2024.

2 Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping consultation: government response, Department of Health (Northern Ireland), Department of Health & Social Care, Scottish Government, and Welsh Government, 2024

3 University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Health & Wellbeing - Research - MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit - Research - Complexity in health - Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Scotland Study

4 Use of e-cigarettes among young people in Great Britain - ASH

5 Scottish Litter Survery 2023 - Keep Scotland Beautiful

6 Material Focus. 2023. Number of disposable single-use vapes thrown away have in a year quadrupled to 5 million per week.

7 The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions, World Energy Outlook. International Energy Agency, 2021.

8 32 The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions, World Energy Outlook. International Energy Agency, 2021.

9 Scoping policy options for Scotland focusing on understanding and managing the environmental impact of single-use e-cigarettes. Hogg, D., 2023.

10 Adolescents' Health Perceptions of E-Cigarettes: A Systematic Review - ScienceDirect

11 Adolescents Who Vape Nicotine and Their Experiences Vaping: A Qualitative Study

12 Vaping as a gateway to smoking – evidence briefing - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

13 Vaping – Health harms: evidence briefing - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

14 Scottish Government launches Take Hold campaign to raise awareness of vaping harms - Children in Scotland 2023

15 (Vaping – Health harms: evidence briefing - gov.scot (www.gov.scot));