The most popular brands in the UK, Elf Bar for instance and Geek Bar, those are made in China. They're not the sort of British companies that you can demonstrate outside over anything like that. So the accusations tend to slide off them a little bit because they're sort of not a visible presence in the UK but the products clearly are. Do you think we're looking at this being potentially the next smoking epidemic? I don't actually. I think the smoking problem we've got is with older people, kids will try to smoke and they will try to vape if they can obtain the stuff they need. We have got a prohibition in law for them to buy Vapes but it isn't
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