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<p>Zero persons were proceeded against for sales of e-cigarettes to under 18s in England
and Wales between 2015 and 2017 (most recent figures available).</p><p> </p><p>This
information was obtained from a manual review of court case files that centrally held
data indicated may be relevant, and as such has not been through the same quality
assurance processes as for routinely published data.</p><p> </p><p>These figures relate
to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were
dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principle
offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal
is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which
the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.</p>
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