Petition · past parliament
Ban e-cigarettes from open display in shops and treat them like tobacco.
Closed
52 signatures
What the petition asks
E-cigarettes are very popular with teenagers who become addicted to nicotine and turn eventually to tobacco. They should be treated in the same way as tobacco and placed out of view in shops and petrol stations otherwise we will see an epidemic of e-cigarette use, like America, here in our schools.
"E-cigarettes are 75% to as harmful as tobacco" (Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine and Tobacco Control, UCSF, 2018). PHE is ignoring the evidence in its claims they are 95% safer! In the US, the FDA is now clamping down hard on the e-cigarette industry (which is mostly the Big Tobacco!) because of the rising epidemic of vaping in high schools. Vaping creates nicotine addiction and teenagers are 4-6 times more likely to try tobacco! Vaping is conditioning us to accept smoking as normal again.
Timeline
| 22 Oct 2018 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 22 Apr 2019 | Closed to new signatures |
Key facts
Signatures
52
Status
Closed
Opened
22 Oct 2018
Closed
22 Apr 2019
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.