For our undercover investigation, we sent under 18s onto the high street with hidden cameras. , Out of eight shops visited, five sold nicotine vapes to our underage secret shoppers. In several cases, The Health Sciences Authority and campus security seized 19 vapes and related components during a joint operation at all institutes of higher learning. All eight culprits, aged 18 to 24, were fined on A vape shop owner in Edmonton has been prosecuted in court and fined over 2,000, after a sales assistant sold a disposal vape to a 14 year old boy without asking him for ID. At what age can you buy disposable vapes?