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.
from what i understand, vaping is much easier to get into due to the taste/smell. so neither is good for anyone, but cigarettes are seen as gross and the companies that make vaping products have tricked teens into thinking that they’re safe.
“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.
If it’s anything like how the US deals with these things: tobacco is heavily taxed, vaping is taxed far less. They don’t give a shit who uses nicotine, just that they do so in a profitable way.
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from what i understand, vaping is much easier to get into due to the taste/smell. so neither is good for anyone, but cigarettes are seen as gross and the companies that make vaping products have tricked teens into thinking that they’re safe.
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that is what they’re doing.
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I think it’s specifically the disposable ones, because they contain a lithium battery/capacitor in them
If it’s anything like how the US deals with these things: tobacco is heavily taxed, vaping is taxed far less. They don’t give a shit who uses nicotine, just that they do so in a profitable way.