TV Tonight: Jordan North: The Truth About Vaping

Jordan North: The Truth About Vaping is on BBC Three and iPlayer tonight at 8.30pm.

As the UK Government moves to ban disposable vapes, Jordan North sets out to uncover the truth about vaping, and decide if it’s time he packed it in.

The number of young people vaping has skyrocketed in recent years. Annual sales in the UK are now worth more than £1.3 billion.

Once simply marketed as a safer alternative to cigarettes for smokers, vapes can now be bought in hundreds of different shapes, sizes, colours, and flavours, and are available in shops on most high streets. Many of those who use them have never smoked, and there is increasing concern about the number of young people vaping and getting hooked on nicotine.

But Jordan, like many vapers, is confused. Is vaping bad for you or not? If so, how bad? What’s even inside them? And are they all the same, or are some more harmful than others?

Along his journey, Jordan meets young vapers similarly confused about the impact of vaping on their health. He visits his old university in Sunderland to find out how vapes work, joins Newcastle Trading Standards as they conduct raids on shops selling illegal vapes, and heads to Manchester to meet the scientist behind one of the first long term studies into the impact of vapes on our cardiovascular system.