‘Harmful and addicting youth’: Vaping crackdown flagged in national report | Dana_Adele
Brightly coloured vaping products with flavours like bubble gum and fairy floss that claim to be nicotine-free could be banned in a national crackdown as new research finds e-cigarettes are “harmful and addicting youth”.
“Vapes deliver hundreds of chemicals – some of them known to be toxic,” lead author Professor Emily Banks from the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health said.“Nicotine use in children and adolescents can lead to lifelong addiction issues as well as difficulties in concentration and learning.”
“Our concern with vaping is more that it’s being used and promoted as a new addiction for people who aren’t currently smoking,” Professor Skerritt told a Senate estimates hearing on Wednesday.The Cancer Council’s public health committee chair, Anita Dessaix, said governments “are not doing enough to try and stop these products” and must close loopholes allowing them to be sold, saying purportedly nicotine-free vapes were “acting like a Trojan horse”.
More than 2 million Australians have used e-cigarettes, which are more common among young people, especially males, and most do not use them to try to quit smoking. Pro-vaping advocates are ramping up their campaign for nicotine e-cigarettes to be treated the same as ordinary consumer products ahead of the federal election, with Legalise Vaping Australia recently sending its lobbyists to meet with politicians in Parliament House.
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