New 2,000 fine for selling nicotine-inhaling products, like vapes, at children’s events [Video]

SELLING NICOTINE-INHALING products like vapes at events aimed at children will carry a €2,000 on-the-spot fine under new legislation.

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly has signed a law to apply the fine to the offence of selling tobacco products or nicotine-inhaling products at events aimed at children or where the majority of the participants or audience are children. 

The measure under the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023, which was commenced in March, is intended to strengthen the regulation of nicotine-inhaling products and to help efforts to eliminate the use of tobacco products.

In a statement this morning, Donnelly he said that there is an urgency to these measures because of the health risk posed by the products.

“I welcome the coming into operation of further provisions of our 2023 Act. I am developing new tobacco control law, bringing law through the Houses and implementing law …