Outlets might be banned from displaying vapes to guard younger folks from a “ticking time bomb”.
Scottish Greens MSP Gillian Mackay needs retailers to deal with them in the identical manner as cigarettes and conceal them from view.
She intends to ask for a legislation to crack down on vape merchandise, which frequently are available in brilliant colors and in a spread of candy flavours.
Mackay stated: “That is past the times of smoking behind the bike sheds – this can be a multi-million business main the nation’s well being down a path to catastrophe. It's a ticking time-bomb and, till we all know extra, that’s not a danger I or anybody else must be requested to just accept.”
She has written to outlets and vape producers forward of taking her marketing campaign to the Scottish Parliament.
Mackay, the Inexperienced Social gathering’s well being spokesman, stated there's rising concern that the variety of under-age folks being attracted by “intentionally sweet-toothed ways” to market merchandise is spiralling.
She is looking on retailers to steer by instance by writing to them urging that they cover the merchandise from view.
The Central Scotland MSP, stated: “Scotland must be rightly pleased with the massive steps ahead taken bringing in a smoking ban in public locations launched in December 2004.
“However I worry the progress it introduced is being unpicked by producers of e-cigarettes and vaping merchandise utilizing intentionally sweet-toothed ways to focus on a brand new technology of customers and we can not stand idly by and simply hope for the very best.
“It can't be proper that these manufacturers are selling these merchandise with berry, watermelon, mint and different flavours. It's a re-run of when alcopops first appeared on the scene and focused teeny tipplers.”
In August, Ash Scotland’s chief govt, Sheila Duffy, highlighted the danger of low cost, brightly colored, extremely flavoured vapes.
She described the advertising in the direction of youthful folks as a “catastrophe within the making” and warned they had been additionally “an environmental disaster” due to their disposable nature. Ash stated knowledge confirmed youngsters as younger as seven have used vapes, and at the very least 35 per cent of 15-year-olds have been recognized as customers.
Mackay added: “When campaigners equivalent to Ash Scotland warn of the implications ... politicians should take steps to guard our communities.
“I can be wanting intently at what steps we could want to discover when it comes to restrictions on the flavoured merchandise specifically, that are clearly focused to attraction to a demographic of potential customers almost certainly to be of a youthful age.
“Within the meantime, I'm writing to the primary supermarkets and main retailers urging them to behave responsibly and voluntarily guarantee such blatant advertising campaigns are unable to trigger hurt by proscribing their product placement.
"A lot in the best way cigarettes are hidden from view to reduce their attraction, it's as much as outlets and shops to play their half in supporting the well being of the nation earlier than motion is taken that may compel them to take action.”
In Might this yr, the World Well being Organisation stated proof revealed vaping merchandise “are dangerous to well being and aren't secure”.
It cited research which instructed elevated danger of coronary heart illness, lung issues and warnings that pregnancies might be impacted by publicity.
It additionally stated non-smokers and bystanders could also be put in danger, and highlighted the danger of unintended consumption by younger youngsters.
E-cig and vape sellers should be on the Register of Tobacco and Nicotine Vapour Product retailers or danger heavy fines and even imprisonment.