Hipster cafe inhalers and beer garden puffers:don’t pretend to yourself you’re doing something sophisticated. You’re dining out on toxic lolly mist.
I was a life-long smoker and got cancer. I switched to vaping and haven’t had a cigarette in five years. Prohibition has failed again and again – and yet here we are in Australia,failing once more to heed the lessons of history.
The arrival of a tobacco retailer in an inner west suburb has prompted a change to development application regulations.
Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne says he wants greater powers to prevent tobacco and vape stores from opening in suburban shopping strips and near schools.
Illegal tobacco sales have been linked to dozens of firebombings,and new analysis has sparked fears the e-cigarette industry could also become a cash cow for criminals.
Vape stores continue to operate across Sydney despite the state and federal government’s crackdown on the importation and sale of vaping products.
Vaping gave me everything I liked about smoking,without the cost. But soon I was far more addicted to nicotine than I had ever been with cigarettes.
About 82 per cent of WA prisoners are smokers,compared to about 11 per cent in the broader community,and tobacco products are by far their most-bought items.
New analysis suggests 450,000 Australians will require twice-yearly GP visits to get their vape prescriptions and warns young people could turn to tobacco if the regime is too cumbersome.
The import ban on disposable vapes in Australia won’t stop a blossoming black market as Border Force will struggle to enforce it,a former federal officer warns.
The government could use the precedent established by the Howard government in 2000. In that year,the Howard government made public,in advance of the then 30-year rule,historical records on Australia and East Timor between 1974 and 1976.