Researchers have found clear links between vaping and mental health challenges.
Health Minister Mark Butler says he will closely monitor the progress of England and New Zealand’s responses to big tobacco. But he has no plans to follow suit.
The proposal to stop the next generation of English children from being able to buy cigarettes is a one of the toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry and a brave reform that should be adopted worldwide. The Albanese government should get on board.
Under the plan,the age of sale would rise from 18 every year,so a child aged 14 today would never be allowed to legally buy tobacco.
They are cropping up across Melbourne and are an unwelcome sight to many parents. Experts say vape retailers are selling confectionary to appeal to kids.
People who are addicted to vaping do it because they haven’t connected with their death and,subsequently,are never fully facing up to the reality of their mortality.
Graduates engineer a wig out.
The new Children’s Advertising Code bans the encouragement of unsafe practices such as bullying or promoting an unhealthy body image.
“The sheer volume of nangs shows that they weren’t destined for our cake bakers.”
The number of daily cigarette smokers has halved in three decades,but clearly it is better to educate the public in the first place.
Health ministers will receive their first advice on the issue this week,but there is not yet a timeline for the reform.