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While vapes don’t belong in the hands of children, does youth use warrant extreme and severe bans? At least one television star seems to think so.

The popular Channel 4 host – best known for shows like Location, Location, Location and Love It or List It UK – recently took to social media to bash the reduced risk product.

In a string of alarming Twitter posts, she claimed there was an ‘epidemic of nicotine addiction’ amongst young people that was being ignored.

The daytime celeb said this was a nightmare for parents –like herself - who realise how ‘lethal’ e-cigarettes are, adding that vapes are lining the lungs of our youth with a ‘cocktail of chemicals’.

She then called for a ‘ban on all flavoured vapes’ and a ‘ban on marketing’, demanding the government step in and take action.

Although the star’s virtual anti-vaping tirade gained roaring support from a crowd of sceptics and harm reduction critics, there were many who wanted to set the record straight.

In a bid to explain the true power of vaping, hundreds of people whose lives have been changed by the smoking alternative spoke out against Allsopp.

One Twitter user wrote: “My husband – now 57 – has smoked heavily since the age of nine.

“He’s been trying for years to give up with patches, sprays, pills and gum…nothing has worked.

“He’s not had a cigarette since December when he started vaping and he’s gone from 20mg to 10mg (of nicotine). A major achievement.”

Another, Richard Pruen, added: “Smoking kills 76,000 a year in the UK and many more suffer from lung cancer/COPD.

“Vaping sadly gets into the hands it shouldn’t, but it’s rare… vaping is not lethal, not one death in 80+ million users worldwide in 20 years. Is your advice for them to smoke?”

Allsopp’s comments were sparked by a Guardian article which shone a light on the predictions of a pessimistic doctor.

The story focused on Dr Mike McKean, who said ‘huge amounts of children’ were using vape products that we ‘don’t know the long term effects of’, adding that this is an issue the UK should ‘take seriously’.