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UK government excludes 90,835 bot responses from vape ban consultation.
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Of 118,756 responses received during the 2023 consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill, 90,835 were identified as bot-generated by Department of Health and Social Care officials. Almost all answered one question and opposed Rishi Sunak's government's plan to ban disposable vapes, often sent repeatedly from a few IP addresses. The department excluded them all from its decision-making, and the ban later became law.
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