{"id":141660,"date":"2026-02-14T10:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=141660"},"modified":"2026-02-14T11:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:01:55","slug":"deprived-areas-have-70-more-vape-shops-bookies-and-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/deprived-areas-have-70-more-vape-shops-bookies-and-takeaways\/","title":{"rendered":"Deprived Areas Have 70% More Vape Shops, Bookies and Takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"post-header post-header--conveyor\">\n<div class=\"post-header__text\">\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader has-summary\">\n<div class=\"post-subheader__summary\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div role=\"region\" aria-label=\"summary\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Deprived high streets in England are populated by 70% more vape shops, bookmakers, takeaways and off-licences than in wealthier areas, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Poorer areas also have far fewer gyms, nurseries and cafes. The study, published by the Independent Commission on Neighborhoods (Icon), found that shopping parades in deprived areas have roughly double the number of retailers selling fast food and significantly higher vacancy rates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-button-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/novaramedia.com\/2026\/02\/09\/deprived-areas-have-70-more-vape-shops-bookies-and-takeaways\/\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#68cf8a;border-color:#54a66f;border-radius:10px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:8px 26px;font-size:20px;line-height:30px;border-color:#96deae;border-radius:10px;text-shadow:none\"><i class=\"sui sui-sign-out\" style=\"font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF\"><\/i>  <small style=\"padding-bottom:8px;color:#FFFFFF\">Click here for full article at Novara Media<\/small><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deprived high streets in England are populated by 70% more vape shops, bookmakers, takeaways and off-licences than in wealthier areas, a new study has found. Poorer areas also have far &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":141680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[59,5,45],"tags":[2895,804,887,877],"class_list":["post-141660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-sector","category-news","category-uk-ireland","tag-jeffrey-epstein","tag-london","tag-money-laundering","tag-uk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}