West Australian researchers hope laws can be put in place to 'shield' teenagers from social media influencers who promote vaping on their platforms, amid growing fears about young people using e-cigarettes.
She said while there were laws in place to control marketing of e-cigarettes in Australia, much of the damaging content was coming from overseas.
E-cigarettes are battery-operated devices that heat an e-liquid to produce a vapour, or an aerosol, that can contain nicotine, flavour and other chemicalsIn Australia it is illegal for retail outlets to sell nicotine e-cigarettes or liquid nicotine for vaping “[E-cigarettes] can also lead to nicotine poisoning, they can lead to acute lung disease and the long-term effects at this point in time are not known.Young people likely to imitate online behaviour
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