Vape shops that flout the law are being shut by the courts at a rate of four a week.
Trading Standards departments can ask magistrates to grant closure orders for up to three months when stores are found guilty of under-age sales or selling products which might contain excessive or undeclared nicotine.
The Daily Mail sent Freedom of Information requests to departments across the country and 96 – about half – responded, revealing orders were obtained against 102 shops last year.
That equates to around 200 a year, or four a week, assuming the same pattern from departments that did not reply.
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