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Doc MP: Crackdown on disposable vapes will have as big a material impact as our 2006 ban on indoor smoking

- BY DAN VEVERS

A SURGEON-turned-MP has declared that today's disposable vapes ban could have as profound an impact on public health as the 2006 indoor smoking ban.

From today, the sale and supply of single-use vapes is prohibited by law with shops facing £5000 fines and potentially up to two years in jail if they flout the rules.

However Labour MP Zubir Ahmed has said he believes the move will quickly have a "material impact" on Scotland's teen vaping epidemic with a quarter of 15-year-olds currently hooked on the nicotine-based gadgets.

Glasgow South West MP Ahmed, a transplant specialist who worked in the NHS for 20 years, said: "I feel like this is of a magnitude of when the smoking ban came in in 2006 in Scotland.