Wildly popular with young people for their dizzying array of flavours, the time is up for disposable e-cigarettes in Belgium -- the first EU country to ban them.

🇧🇪 🇪🇺 From January 1, it will be forbidden to sell single-use vapes in Belgium, a bid to protect young people's health as part of a national anti-tobacco plan.

Vapes are often promoted as less harmful than smoking traditional tobacco products, but since they still contain highly addictive nicotine, critics say they are a potential stepping stone to the former.

The European Union aims to achieve a tobacco-free generation by 2040 , reducing the 27-country bloc's smoking population from around 25 percent now to less than five percent of the total.

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