Instagram promoting vape products to children as young as 13,
Follow the topics within this article Instagram is promoting vape products with cartoons on to children as young as 13, a Telegraph investigation has found. Posts prompting viewers to share pictures of their favourite vapes and pushing them to websites where they can buy e-cigarettes are being suggested to children too young to legally purchase them. Other promoted posts showed e-cigarettes with flavoured e-liquids in packaging made to look like fizzy drinks cans and bubble gum. Following the Telegraph’s findings, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has called for restrictions banning e-cigarette adverts being targeting at minors to also apply to promotional social medi...
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