Vape stores opening near Australian schools to ‘recruit new generation to nicotine’, Mark Butler says

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Vape stores opening near Australian schools to ‘recruit new generation to nicotine’, Mark Butler says
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Reservoir East primary school can be seen opposite the shop being fitted out to sell vapes.“Hundreds of secondary students also pass through this location to attend nearby Reservoir high school,” he said. He wrote to the health minister and local councillors to express his concerns that vape stores continued to open, citing research that showed that young people who vaped were three times as likely to go on to smoke.

Butler said the government remains “committed to stamping out vaping and vape stores, especially ones that intentionally target their product to children”. But he said it would take time to finalise the details of legislation.Raglan Maddox, an associate professor, is study director of the Tackling Indigenous

Maddox said it was confusing people who were seeing stores open despite messages that vaping was harmful.“A lot of people in these communities we have been speaking to are really concerned about young people taking up vaping, and it impacting their ability to be good parents. Because if you’re saying ‘vaping is bad for your health so don’t do it’, but then stores are opening in the community, it undermines their authority.

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