As Australia debates legislation that would effectively outlaw vaping without a prescription,Singapore is struggling to make its own hardline laws work.
Marijuana remained Australia’s most popular drug,with about 2.5 million users,while about one million people took the stimulant drug cocaine.
Coalition MPs are warning about the “skyrocketing” sale of vapes to children,and asking if it would be better to regulate and tax the sale,like New Zealand.
Hipster cafe inhalers and beer garden puffers:don’t pretend to yourself you’re doing something sophisticated. You’re dining out on toxic lolly mist.
I was a life-long smoker and got cancer. I switched to vaping and haven’t had a cigarette in five years. Prohibition has failed again and again – and yet here we are in Australia,failing once more to heed the lessons of history.
The arrival of a tobacco retailer in an inner west suburb has prompted a change to development application regulations.
Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne says he wants greater powers to prevent tobacco and vape stores from opening in suburban shopping strips and near schools.
Illegal tobacco sales have been linked to dozens of firebombings,and new analysis has sparked fears the e-cigarette industry could also become a cash cow for criminals.
Vape stores continue to operate across Sydney despite the state and federal government’s crackdown on the importation and sale of vaping products.
Vaping gave me everything I liked about smoking,without the cost. But soon I was far more addicted to nicotine than I had ever been with cigarettes.
About 82 per cent of WA prisoners are smokers,compared to about 11 per cent in the broader community,and tobacco products are by far their most-bought items.