Vaping Laws: How Old Do You Need to Be to Vape

 

Vaping has grown very popular for multiple reasons over the last decade. It has become increasingly loved and has posed a great consumer competition to cigarettes, which back then used to be the most commonly used product for smoking. The nicotine-free vape is also the most commonly used product that helps to quit smoking. But as it becomes more and more relatable, there comes a very troublesome group of curious customers: the overly enthusiastic teenagers.

 Regulators and legislators have used a variety of strategies in the e-cigarette shop, both offline and online to keep adolescents away from vapour products. As of now the most common method used for regulating the product has been through determining how old you have to be to buy vape products like vape pens and liquids.

 As with alcohol, enforcing a legal minimum sales age is pretty feasible and easy. This isn't the case for e-cigarettes.  Nevertheless, it remains the most reliable way to reduce teen vaping. The power is given to the legislators on deciding how old you have to be to vape. Some limitations vary from country to country with regards to how old you have to be to purchase a vape. The penalties for retailers who break the law are also decided accordingly as in any case to enforce an age-to-purchase law isn’t easy.

 When it comes to determining the legal age, in most countries, vaping is either regulated as a tobacco product. There are even places where it isn’t specifically regulated at all. In some countries, vapour products are banned whereas in other countries it isn't. In the nations that regulate e-cigarettes, the legal age to purchase or consume the e-cigarette is generally considered to be of the same age at which citizens are considered adults, which is mostly eighteen. For instance, in the United States—the largest known vaping market in the world—the legal vaping age is now kept at twenty-one.