WA says it won't allow vapes to be sold without a prescription, despite new federal regulations allowing it. Yet vapes are still easily obtainable illegally, and the minister won't say how many sellers have been prosecuted.
Vapes will be allowed to be sold by pharmacists nationally without a prescription from next week, but WA is resisting the changes.
Western Australia is planning to override the federal government's vaping laws to stop the over-the-counter sale of e-cigarettes. It means pharmacies will be able to sell vapes containing nicotine to anyone over 18 where a pharmacist deems it "clinically appropriate" – a change which would weaken WA's requirement for a prescription for all vapes sold."Community pharmacists don't want to be selling vapes, their very clear message to us," WA Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson told ABC Radio Perth.
The minister said while doctors could write prescriptions for e-cigarettes, she believed very few were.
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