23 Aug 2023

Retailers selling vapes to children under 18 says mother

From Morning Report, 7:24 am on 23 August 2023

A mother says retailers selling vapes to children under eighteen have been getting away with it.

Ministry of Health figures show fewer than one hundred infringement notices have been issued since enforcement began in June last year.

Vape Free Kids co-founder Anna Stewart sent her 16-year-old son undercover to prove a local Christchurch dairy would sell the teen a vape, which they did.

Stewart spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.