Australia will ban imports of disposable vapes in January, the health minister said, the first step in a crackdown aimed at curbing the popularity of nicotine-filled devices among young people.
“These are the vapes that have pink unicorns on them, bubblegum flavouring, disguised in order for them to hide them in their pencil cases,” Butler told a news conference.
To ensure the bans don’t limit access for smokers looking to quit, doctors and nurses will be given expanded powers in January to prescribe therapeutic vapes where clinically appropriate.
But therapeutic vapes will be restricted from using flavours, have limited nicotine levels and be sold in pharmaceutical packaging under new rules to be introduced next year, with a transition period for manufacturers to comply.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to broadly regulate how recreational or intoxicating substances are marketed instead of playing whack-a-mole with piecemeal regulation every time a new problem pops up?
that is what they’re doing.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to broadly regulate how recreational or intoxicating substances are marketed instead of playing whack-a-mole with piecemeal regulation every time a new problem pops up?