single-use

One shopkeeper I spoke to told me he knew he was breaking the law by selling the single-use disposable vapes, but he added that he wanted to sell his remaining stock at a discount.

Single-use disposable vapes helped get children hooked on nicotine and blighted high streets with waste, according to the government.

Nearly two weeks on from a ban on the sale of single-use disposable vapes in the UK, many shops have been found still to be openly selling the illicit items.

Single-use vapes, in their bright-coloured packaging and variety of fruity flavours, had been a "key driver behind the alarming rise in youth vaping", the previous government had said as it first set its sights on a ban.

In some shops we visited in Yorkshire, the colourful packaging of single-use vapes was still very much visible on the shelves.