Upscale U.K. Grocer Ends Sales of Single-Use Vapes
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The upscale U.K.-based grocer Waitrose has halted sales of single-use vaping products due to the impact on the environment and the “health of young people.”
Two types of single-use e-cigarettes have now been removed from sale as a result, Waitrose said.
Waitrose said it has de-listed vaping products containing lithium, which it has historically sold under the Ten Motives label, according to the Daily Mail.
Waitrose commercial director Charlotte Di Cello said the company is “driven by doing the right thing,” and selling single-use vapes is not something Waitrose could justify given the impact on “the environment and the health of young people.”
“We had already decided it wasn’t right to stock the fashionable bright-colored devices, which are seeing rapid growth – so this decision is the final jigsaw piece in our clear decision not to be part of the single-use vaping market,” she said.