THE TOBACCO COMPANIES, criminal gangs and the Treasury are the winners from last night’s Budget announcements on smoking and vaping. The losers are smokers, vapers, public health and vape shops. Vapers The government has made it’s anti-vaping agenda clear. They……
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MANY VAPERS AND RETAILERS have contacted me, understandably confused and distressed by Mark Butler’s “plan to ban” vaping. The misguided crackdown is based on a moral panic about youth vaping and will be a disaster for smokers and vapers. I……
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HEALTH MINISTER MARK BUTLER said in a recent interview that the claim that most vapes sold to kids do not contain nicotine is “utter hore-shi**t”. However it turns out that many of his own claims are horse-s**t and should be……
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WHO IS ADVISING AUSTRALIA'S HEALTH MINISTER Mark Butler on vaping? The Minister has been seriously misinformed about the benefits and risks of vaping, and its huge public health potential. His views are out-of-step with Health Ministers in New Zealand, the……
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HEALTHCANADA HAS UPDATED ITS ADVICE ON VAPING to reflect the latest scientific evidence and supports of vaping as a quitting aid for adult smokers. In stark contrast, advice from Australia’s health department remains out of date, discourages vaping and continues……
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NICOTINE VAPING PRODUCTS should be sold to adult smokers from licensed retail outlets without a nicotine prescription in Australia as they are in all other western countries. This was the conclusion of our peer-reviewed study, published today in Drug and Alcohol……
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THE NORTHERN TERRITORY GOVERNMENT is seeking submissions on vaping for a Parliamentary Inquiry. This is long overdue. Vaping could help to reduce the shamefully high smoking rate in the Territory especially for Aboriginal smokers, but was completely overlooked in the……
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A RECENT AUSTRALIAN STUDY has found that current vaping by young people (mostly young adults) who have never smoked is rare. Most vaping is by current and past smokers and a majority are using vaping to quit or cut down……
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QUEENSLAND IS CONTINUING ITS VENDETTA against vaping, announcing a parliamentary inquiry to investigate the prevalence of youth vaping and to confirm the "potential dangers". This political stunt is a waste of taxpayers' money which should be spent on reducing the……
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THE VIEWS OF AUSTRALIA'S RESPECTED HEALTH AND MEDICAL ORGANISATIONS on vaping nicotine are out-of-step with leading organisations in other western countries. Why does Cancer Council Australia oppose vaping, yet leading UK cancer charity Cancer Research UK strongly supports it? Why……
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