Blackburn is known as the e-cigarette capital of the UK, with nearly 22.56 e-cigarette shops per 100,000 people.
The former mill town is slightly ahead of Bolton and Manchester, which have 20.26 and 19.84 vape shops per 100,000 people respectively.
Middlesbrough is fourth, with 12.43 vaping shops per 100,000 people, and Stockport is fifth, with 12.03 vaping shops per 100,000 people.
Newport, Wales, is eighth with 9.75 stores, while Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, is ninth with 9.68 stores. The University of Nottingham ranked tenth with 9.62.
Online vape shop Go Smoke Free used data from Companies House to calculate the number of registered vape shops and population size in UK towns.
Previously, Rishi Sunak announced that the UK will implement a ban on disposable e-cigarettes from 2025 to curb pollution and stop children becoming addicted to nicotine.
The ban, which does not include refillable vape pens, will come into force in England, Wales and Scotland on April 1, 2025.
A new study finds that vaping may be associated with a “substantially” increased risk of heart failure – with people who have vaped 19% more likely to develop the disease compared to non-vapers .
The study’s lead author, Dr. Yakubu Bene-Alhasan of MedStar Health, Baltimore, USA, said: “A growing number of studies are linking e-cigarettes to harmful effects and finding that they may not be as safe as previously thought.
“The difference we saw was huge. It’s worth considering the consequences of this on your health, especially when it comes to heart health.”
The study included more than 175,000 Americans (including e-cigarette users and non-vapers), of whom 3,242 developed heart failure within 45 months.
Studies have found that people who use e-cigarettes are at increased risk of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, in which the heart muscle becomes stiff and fails to fill properly with blood between contractions.
However, this is not linked to reduced ejection fraction, which causes the heart muscle to weaken and the left ventricle to not squeeze as much as it should when contracting.
Heart failure means the heart cannot pump blood properly throughout the body. According to the NHS, this condition usually occurs when the heart becomes too weak or stiff.
The British Heart Foundation estimates that more than one million people in the UK live with heart failure.
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