Adam Bandt insists his party is focused on harm reduction after it struck a deal to allow any adult to buy vapes from pharmacists.
Greens leader Adam Bandt has denied his party's amendments to a vaping bill amount to watering it down.
"The second motivation for us is that we said there is a real public health problem, and especially amongst children — the kind of flavoured vapes that children have been using, they're meant to deliberately marketed to children — for us was something that we really wanted to tackle. "Certainly children, but in general, the only way that you're going to be able to get them is through a chemist.
"No vaping product has been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration based on its safety, efficacy or performance. "Pharmacists have very important health conversations with their customers all the time, about vapes in this instance but about things like the morning after pill.
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