HSE warns of cancer risks from vaping and tanning ‘Barbie drug’ dangers

Health experts warned that 'one of the disposable vapes that are particularly popular with children and young people is the equivalent of about a 20-pack of cigarettes'.

A senior HSE official has pleaded with the public to avoid vaping, saying emerging research has linked vapes to cancer in a similar way to cigarettes. 

Edward Murphy, the HSE's Tobacco Free Ireland Programme manager, warned that vapes deliver nicotine “as effectively as a traditional tobacco cigarette does”.