New analysis suggests 450,000 Australians will require twice-yearly GP visits to get their vape prescriptions and warns young people could turn to tobacco if the regime is too cumbersome.
The import ban on disposable vapes in Australia won’t stop a blossoming black market as Border Force will struggle to enforce it,a former federal officer warns.
The government could use the precedent established by the Howard government in 2000. In that year,the Howard government made public,in advance of the then 30-year rule,historical records on Australia and East Timor between 1974 and 1976.
From New Year’s Day,all imported disposable vapes – with or without nicotine – will be banned as the first stage of the government’s crackdown to eventually limit vaping to people with a prescription.
It took 40 days for a three-party coalition to form government in New Zealand. But now it has arrived,it’s not wasting any time in turning back the clock.
Malaysia’s government have been accused of caving into big tobacco and the vaping industry after unwinding plans to ban future generations from smoking.
As disposable vapes vaporise from the market next year,expect plenty of angst as addicts either quit,convert to cigarettes,or scramble for the “therapeutic” alternative.
The country’s new centre-right coalition will scrap the laws introduced by the previous Labour-led government,according to coalition agreements published last last week.
Disposable vapes won’t be allowed into Australia from the new year,but people will be able to get a prescription from any doctor or nurse practitioner.
The state’s advocate for children and young people has advised against pursuing a plan to introduce vape detectors in school bathrooms,after consulting teenagers.
A new counterculture is seeing people push back against the industries that are harming our health.