VAPE ROGUES FACE 2-YEAR PRISON TERM

Shopkeepers who sell throwaway devices can be jailed or fined £5k

- DAN VEVERS

SHOP owners who sell disposable vapes after the ban on June 1 face £5000 fines and potentially up to two years in jail.

All four UK nations will outlaw the polluting single-use plastic e-cigarettes in the summer after a two-year campaign by the Record.

Details of the various enforcement regimes have been released in new guidance for retailers.

In Scotland, councils' trading standards teams will be in charge of enforcing the ban, reporting criminal cases to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service for possible prosecution.