Key Points:
1. The UK's first e-cigarette cessation clinic specifically designed for minors has officially launched in Liverpool.
2. Data showed that approximately 18% of children aged 11 to 17 in the UK have used e-cigarettes, with some as young as seven years old.
3. Doctors are urging measures to address the increasingly serious issue of underage e-cigarette use.
2Firsts, reporting from Shenzhen - A spokesperson for the UK's first e-cigarette cessation clinic for minors pointed out that children as young as seven have started using e-cigarettes, Dailymail reported.
Rachel Isba revealed that the UK's first e-cigarette cessation service for children opened in Liverpool two months ago, but appointments have been fully booked for several weeks.
A survey conducted by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has revealed that approximately 18% of children aged 11 to 17 in the UK have tried e-cigarettes, with 7.2% using them in the past month.
Isbah said that while official statistics track e-cigarette use from age 11, information from colleagues across the country suggests that some children start as young as seven or eight.
She added:
"The size of the problem is unknown but also the extent of the age range is also underestimated."
"I think there are lots of children and young people who would like support to stop vaping or cut down their vaping but putting the systems in place to get them to me is always going to take time."
"It's sad we have to have a clinic for this but I do feel I am doing something which is a real problem, the size of which we haven't really got a grip on."
"Everybody recognises this is a massive issue for our children and young children but we're really struggling for an approach, which is quite unusual to have something that is so widespread but we don't have an approach to children and young people to stop vaping if they want to."
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