A climate sceptic and Liz Truss ally is behind a mysteriously funded campaign with links to the tobacco industry that is opposing a ban on disposable vapes, openDemocracy can reveal.
Global Britain, which describes itself as an “anti-EU think tank”, has run hundreds of ads across Facebook and Instagram under the name Save My Vape in the last five years, including a campaign urging people to lobby their MPs against new rules announced today restricting the sale of e-cigarettes.
The government says today’s ban on disposable vapes will tackle the rising number of young people taking up vaping and help curb the environmental impact of five million being discarded every week.
