State health ministers to ask for crackdown on vaping products at the border | Dana_Adele
State health ministers will this week push the federal government to crack down on illicit vaping imports after research found e-cigarettes are serving as a gateway to smoking cigarettes.
“I believe the scientific evidence that vaping is not good for our health, but the challenge is how it can best be managed when many in the community think, erroneously, that it is safe,” Hazzard toldLeading tobacco control expert Libby Jardine, chair of Cancer Council’s Tobacco Issues Committee, said youth vaping in Australia was “becoming an epidemic”.
While enforcing laws against selling vaping devices to children is a state responsibility, the importation ban can only be enforced by the Commonwealth.Advertisement Figures provided to the Senate show that, between the liquid nicotine import ban starting last October and an Estimates hearing in February, Border Force seized just 63 consignments containing the restricted substance.
The minister said the updated advice, which warned vapes contained potentially harmful chemicals and toxins and had a “gateway effect” on youth who had never smoked, raised “very serious concerns about the risks this novel technology poses to public health, particularly to young Australians”.“Labor has a proud history of implementing world-leading anti-smoking policies, including plain-packaging laws, which has seen a steep reduction in tobacco consumption since 2012,” Butler said.
Western Australian Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson will also back stronger federal enforcement at Thursday’s meeting, a spokeswoman confirmed.
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