Australia plans to outlaw the sale of vapes outside pharmacies from next week under some of the world’s toughest restrictions on electronic cigarettes.
These must-have Insider Deal household items are at unbeatable prices!Australian Health Minister Mark Butler speaks gestures towards boxes of electronic cigarettes during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, Feb.
28, 2024. Australia announced plans, Monday, June 24, to outlaw the sale of vapes outside pharmacies from next week under some of the world's toughest restrictions on electronic cigarettes. outside pharmacies from next week under some of the world’s toughest restrictions on electronic cigarettes, the health minister said on Monday.“Our world-leading laws will return vapes and e-cigarettes to what they were originally sold to the Australian community and to governments around the world as therapeutic products to help hardened smokers kick the habit,” Butler said in a statement. From Monday next week, it will be unlawful to supply, manufacture, import or sell a vape outside a pharmacy in Australia, he said. The ban applies to all vapes regardless of whether they contain nicotine. There are currently no restrictions on what retail outlets can sell vapes. Many products do not disclose that they contain nicotine. The Greens had insisted on amendments to a bill that the government had already passed through the House of Representatives. The government holds a majority in the House but not in the Senate. Adults would not require prescriptions to buy vapes under the amended bill. The original government legislation made vapes only available through a doctor’s prescription to help end nicotine addiction. “The Greens do not support prohibition, that is why we have successfully secured changes to this legislation to ensure that vapes remain out of the hands of kids, but adults can access them via a pharmacy,” Greens health spokesperson Jordon Steele-John said in a statement.The Pharmacy Guild of Australia, which represents the nation’s pharmacy owners, opposed their businesses becoming outlets for harmful vapes with little evidence that the product helped smokers quit. “The Senate’s expectation that community pharmacies become vape retailers and vape garbage collectors is insulting,” the guild said in a statement. Michael Bonning, a spokesman for the Australian Medical Association, the nation’s peak doctors’ group, said the new law would create a “seismic shift in how accessible vapes are.” “These are world-leading reforms that doctors and all health professionals have pushed for,” Bonning told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “Australia will continue to be looked at as a leader in tobacco and nicotine control,” Bonning added.A University of Melbourne survey of 600 vape users aged between 14 and 25 released on Monday found 61% wanted to quit their habit. The proportion of Australians aged 14 and over who smoked daily more than halved from 24% in 1991 to 8.3% in the 2022–2023 fiscal year, the government said. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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