{"id":28274,"date":"2023-02-14T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=28274"},"modified":"2023-02-20T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T11:45:29","slug":"keep-vapes-put-of-the-sight-of-children-local-government-urges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2023\/02\/14\/keep-vapes-put-of-the-sight-of-children-local-government-urges\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep vapes put of the sight of children, local government urges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localgov.co.uk\/Council-chiefs-call-for-tougher-vaping-laws\/55603#:~:text=The%20Local%20Government%20Association%20(LGA,have%20had%20to%20step%20in.\">Local Government Association<\/a> (LGA) is calling for strict new measures to regulate the display and marketing of vaping products in the same way as tobacco,&nbsp;in plain packaging and with age-of-sale signage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Councils are especially concerned by the marketing of vapes with fruity and bubble gum flavours and colourful child-friendly packaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The LGA says there has been a sharp increase in incidents where shops have been caught selling vapes to youngsters and councils have had to step in. It adds  there should be a ban on free samples of vaping products being given out to people of any age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-1.png?resize=540%2C360&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-1.png?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-1.png?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 85vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image: Courtesy of Adobe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Local Government Association (LGA) is calling for strict new measures to regulate the display and marketing of vaping products in the same way as tobacco,&nbsp;in plain packaging and with age-of-sale signage. Councils are especially concerned by the marketing of vapes with fruity and bubble gum flavours and colourful child-friendly packaging. The LGA says there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2023\/02\/14\/keep-vapes-put-of-the-sight-of-children-local-government-urges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Keep vapes put of the sight of children, local government urges&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6463,6378,6859,6331],"class_list":["post-28274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lga","tag-local-government-association","tag-tobacco","tag-vaping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28274"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28301,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28274\/revisions\/28301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}