Government to ban single-use vapes and introduce plain packaging in new crackdown

The first law will be used to ban the sale of single-use vapes. File photo

The Government is to ban the advertisement of vapes behind shop counters, mandate plain packaging and outlaw single-use vapes, as new laws are prepared to bring them in line with cigarette packaging.

Health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill is to introduce new legislation as part of a clampdown on the industry. The proposals are being introduced through two separate laws. The first will be used to ban the sale of single-use vapes.