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E-cigarettes ban for under-18s

The Government is to introduce new legislation to ban under-18s from buying electronic cigarettes. The announcement comes as e-cigarettes are enjoying a boom in sales, with an estimated 1.3 million people in the UK thought to use them

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Under 18s to be banned from using e-cigarettes

The sale of electronic cigarettes to under 18s is to be banned as part of a clampdown on teenage smoking. An estimated 1.3 million people use them - most as an aid to quit smoking.

But some experts say a ban could actually encourage more youngsters to take up the habit.

ITV News reporter Sejal Karia reports:

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