Vaping industry open to raising legal age for e-cigarettes 

Declan Connolly, IVVA director, said: “I would accept that, not just young people but adults as well, would be less likely to take up vaping or switch from smoking to vaping if fruit or sweet flavour liquids weren’t available.” File photo

The vaping industry has “no problem” with the minimum age for buying e-cigarettes being raised to 21, the Oireachtas health committee has heard.

During sometimes testy exchanges, representatives from the Irish Vape Vendors Association (IVVA) rejected claims that flavoured liquids are targeting children and insisted vaping is a way to stop smoking.