People in Teesside reminded of upcoming disposable vape ban
It's part of a Government strategy
By next week we will no longer see the sale of disposable vapes across Teesside as a UK-wide ban comes into force from Sunday.
It is part of a Government strategy to protect children and the environment from the single-use products.
Josh Murray is from Hartlepool and he uses a refillable vape but welcomes the ban: "I see it as a problem mainly for kids but not for adults. They're too easily accessible to children which isn't good at all. I haven't seen them actually in the shops but I've seen them definitely outside, and a few times I've been asked to go inside the shop and get it for them and I was like 'absolutely not.'
"I think a lot of it like when you're a kid and you try a cigarette, it's disgusting. It's only certain type of people that continue but now you can just get your own flavour and if you don't like something, you try something else. It's so open to children that it's disgusting to be fair.
"There needs to be tighter restrictions on it and make it much more difficult to get them, especially when children are present and stuff and not sell it if you're with a child, because obviously it could be construed that you're going to give it to them."