‘Russian roulette’:Teens suffer seizures,vomiting after using Snapchat vapes
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‘Russian roulette’:Teens suffer seizures,vomiting after using Snapchat vapes

Six young people have presented to emergency departments with seizures,loss of consciousness and vomiting within days of each other.

  • byMary Ward

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Australian team hypocrites and ugly winners

Australian team hypocrites and ugly winners

Not all our readers support the Australian team’s actions at Lord’s.

Vaping ban likely to fuel black market:emails reveal drug advisory group’s fears
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Vaping ban likely to fuel black market:emails reveal drug advisory group’s fears

Some experts from the Australian National Advisory Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs debated how to warn the health minister about their misgivings in emails published under freedom of information.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
Perth mum sounds alarm on vaping stores’ covert supply chain
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Perth mum sounds alarm on vaping stores’ covert supply chain

A former vape store employee claims she was told to lie to health inspectors and police to cover up an under-the-counter black market.

  • byMia Egerton-Warburton
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‘It’s a joke’:Why young vaping addicts say regulations won’t work

‘It’s a joke’:Why young vaping addicts say regulations won’t work

E-cigarettes have ignited a health crisis among teens. Despite crackdowns by government and schools,kids are finding ways to sidestep restrictions.

  • byTim Elliott
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Perth tobacco chain,bosses caught up in WA Health vape crackdown

Perth tobacco chain,bosses caught up in WA Health vape crackdown

A popular Perth smoke mart chain and its two directors are among the first to be charged over the sale of illegal e-cigarettes since WA’s vaping crackdown began last year.

  • byJesinta Burton
Tobacco crackdown to ban menthols and put taglines on every cigarette

Tobacco crackdown to ban menthols and put taglines on every cigarette

Only 12 per cent of Australians are daily smokers,but the health minister wants that figure to drop below 5 per cent by decade’s end.

  • byPaul Sakkal
Where there’s smoke there’s ire. Blame the government for that
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Where there’s smoke there’s ire. Blame the government for that

The success of public health campaigns against smoking is proof of the ability of governments to change citizens’ behaviour,which is exactly what writers like Martin Amis would have hated.

  • byJacqueline Maley
Ban won’t stop vapes flooding in:Border Force chief

Ban won’t stop vapes flooding in:Border Force chief

Border Force Commissioner Michael Outram says banning vapes at the border won’t stamp out the rampant black market.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
The long-term dangers of vaping are unclear but there are troubling clues

The long-term dangers of vaping are unclear but there are troubling clues

The popularity of vaping is linked to a claim by British health authorities that vaping is 95 per cent safer than smoking. How true is that? And what are the dangers?

  • byAngus Dalton