The Welsh government is pushing through a ban on the use of e-cigarettes in enclosed spaces in a move that will put vaping on a par with smoking.
Mark Drakeford, the Welsh health minister, claimed that the electronic cigarettes were a “gateway” to tobacco and risked “renormalising smoking”.
The proposals form part of a new public health bill, which also aims to make it illegal to hand over tobacco to under 18s.
Professor Drakeford said: “The bill will mean that anywhere you can’t use a conventional cigarette, then you won’t be able to use an e-cigarette either. It will prevent the re-normalisation of smoking.
“We have worked so hard in Wales to try and bear down on the harm that smoking does - and allowing