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The regulations are addressed at youth vaping in Australia, where about 22% of 18-24 year-olds reported using e-cigarettes or vaping devices at least once, data last year showed.
Australia is developing regulations on e-cigarettes. [169] Laws vary across Australia's states and can conflict. In April 2014 a court decision made it illegal to sell or supply e-cigarettes regardless of their appearance or nicotine content (even if zero) in Western Australia. [170] Previously they were banned if they looked like cigarettes.
Australia in 2012 became the first country to legislate for plain packing of tobacco products which vastly curtailed the industry’s marketing potential. Tobacco advertising is banned in Australia. A University of Melbourne survey of 600 vape users aged between 14 and 25 released on Monday found 61% wanted to quit their habit.
Buying a vape just got harder in Australia with the introduction of some of the world’s toughest anti-vaping laws that limit the sale of vapes with nicotine to pharmacies.
Australia will water down a planned world first ban on vaping after opposition from the Greens party led the government on Monday to agree to amend a bill that would have restricted vapes to those ...
National Drug Strategy – Household Survey – detailed report 2013, Australian Government, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; OURhotel, Special Local Government Edition (Official publication of the Australian Hotels Association), p. 5–7; Environmental Tobacco Smoke in Australia, prepared by VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control ...
In April 2010, the Australian government announced plans to prohibit the use of tobacco industry logos, colors, brand imagery or promotional text of tobacco product packaging from 2012, requiring that brand names and product names be displayed in a standard drab brown color, font style and position in a policy known as "plain packaging". [79]
An electronic cigarette (e-cigarette), commonly called a vape, [note 1] [1] is a device that simulates tobacco smoking. It consists of an atomizer, a power source such as a battery, and a container such as a cartridge or tank. Instead of smoke, the user inhales vapor. [2] As such, using an e-cigarette is often called "vaping". [3]