Nany Maree
Pink unicorns. Bubblegum. Vapes disguised as pens so kids can hide them in pencil cases. The Health Minister listed them himself.
Mark Butler announced the crackdown today. Non-prescription vape imports are to be blocked, single-use vapes banned, and sales moved to pharmacies in plain, pharmaceutical packaging. A study in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health found four in five teenagers aged 15 to 17 said vapes were easy or somewhat easy to buy in shops.
His line was that vaping was sold to governments as a way to help long-term smokers quit. It became recreational instead.
I've no time for salesmen, whatever they're selling. I'll also be reading how pharmacy-only works in towns where the chemist shuts at five.
Talk to your GP or health professional about your own body.
Source: ABC News, 2023-05-02
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