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Shop fined for underage vape sale


A Tower Hamlets shop that illegally sold a vape to a 14-year-old has been fined

Richard Young

Posted 22 May 2023 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Updates|Retail|London


UPDATES: A retailer has been fined after selling a vape to an underage test purchaser, reinforcing the importance of age verification and ongoing enforcement against youth vaping.

The owner of a shop that sold a vape to a 14-year-old child has been fined £200 following an investigation by Tower Hamlets Trading Standards.

On 16 May at Thames Magistrates Court, Mohammed Ferdhaus, who runs Cloudz Vapez on Roman Road in Tower Hamlets, pleaded guilty to one count of selling an e-cigarette to a person under 18 years. The company was fined £200 by the court with...

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