'Sweetshop' vape flavours like candy floss and bubblegum should be banned

'Sweetshop' vapes should be banned amid alarming levels of use by children (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

The contemptible and deeply cynical marketing of vaping – with flavours like candy floss, bubblegum and strawberry ice cream seemingly targeted at children – has the obvious effect: getting vast numbers of young people hooked on nicotine.

Whatever credit the vaping industry had accumulated for producing an alternative product to tobacco, it has now lost by failing to live up to basic standards of common decency.

The Scotsman is instinctively cautious of anything that smacks of ‘nanny state’ behaviour. However, when the health and well-being of children is concerned, the rules are different.

'Sweetshop' vape flavours like candy floss and bubblegum should be banned – Scotsman comment