A report by the Division of Community Health Services at St George's, University of London, shows that half of the under-18s who died from VSA in 2005 were female. This is an increase in the proportion of deaths of young women - in 2003, only 31 per cent of under-18s who died were female.
In October 1999 legislation was introduced that banned the sale of cigarette lighter refills to under-18s. However, though there was a fall in the number of lighter refill-related deaths following the legislation, the report says that the decline does not "differ significantly from that predicted by the underlying trend", and there is no evidence that the legislation caused the fall.
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