Smokers are about to pay more for hand-rolling tobacco

Rachel Reeves has announced a taxation hike connected vaping products successful today’s fund arsenic portion of a program to trim smoking among children.

She besides announced a further 10% work hike connected hand-rolling baccy this year, on with the caller level complaint work connected each vape liquid from October 2026.

The determination comes arsenic portion of Labour’s warfare connected vaping, which has besides seen them denote a prohibition connected disposable vapes acceptable to instrumentality effect connected June 1 next.

In March, erstwhile Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the Conservative government would beryllium implementing its ain taxation connected vaping products arsenic portion of a wider determination to marque smoking unafforadable for young people, which Labour said they would honour upon taking office.

It goes hand-in-hand with a further emergence successful baccy duty, besides announced today, which seeks to discourage children priced retired of vaping not to commencement smoking.

The Treasury estimates Hunt’s vape tax, erstwhile implemented by Labour, could rise £120m successful 2026-27, rising to £445m by 2028-29.

Vape usage successful the UK is estimated to person grown by 400% betwixt 2012 and 2023, and astir 9.1% of the colonisation is present believed to bargain and usage them.

A nationalist wellness root told the Guardian the assemblage had been expecting the government’s baccy and vapes measure to beryllium tabled astatine the commencement of this month, and that the hold could bespeak changes being announced successful the budget.

Defra’s circular system minister, Mary Creagh, said disposable vapes were ‘extremely wasteful and blight our towns and cities.

‘That is wherefore we are banning azygous usage vapes arsenic we extremity this nation’s throwaway culture,’ she added.

‘This is the archetypal measurement connected the roadworthy to a circular economy, wherever we usage resources for longer, trim waste, accelerate the way to net-zero and make thousands of jobs crossed the country.’

Health curate Andrew Gwynne said: ‘It’s profoundly worrying that a 4th of 11-15-year-olds utilized a vape past twelvemonth and we cognize disposables are the merchandise of prime for the bulk of kids vaping today.

‘Banning disposable vapes volition not lone support the environment, but importantly trim the entreaty of vapes to children and support them retired of the hands of susceptible young people.’

Around 48% of of children caught vaping are little than eleven years old, probe has found.

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