age limit for buying nicotine replacement chewing gum

[kryptic]

can anyone tell me what the age limit is for buying nicotine replacement chewing gum?
Just bought some from B & M and noticed that when it was scanned at the checkout it came up on the screen " must be 12 or over"
Surely it should be 18 the same as cigarettes?

[pink-kittens]

12?

[kryptic]

yep, 12. Very strange.

[pink-kittens]

wiki says 12 as well

[mike11111]

The age limit of 18 applies to tobacco, and not its active ingredient, nicotine. The age limit of 12 is probably purely for medical reasons.

[pink-kittens]

It is on the face of it but there is no age limit on when you can smoke so perhaps this has some bearing on this product?

[pink-kittens]

that would make sense Mike

[kryptic]

Strange to think that my 12 yr old son could legally buy nicotine then.

[kryptic]

Anyway, thanks for quick replies pink and mike.

[karenmac60]

All the kids who were allowed to smoke at 16 - before they changed the age limit - have to quit somehow!

[Cowtipper]

It seems odd to me to put an age limit on it at all. I did find a broken link to a supposed story about kids smoking them.

[pink-kittens]

there is no age limit of when you can smoke, only when you can buy them
There dont seem to be any more or less young smokers here