Vape retailers fear ban on e-cigarettes will send their businesses up in smoke
Local council

Vape retailers fear ban on e-cigarettes will send their businesses up in smoke

At least 58 dedicated vape businesses operate across Greater Melbourne. Some of those business owners say their livelihoods will be ruined by the new laws,which could leave them holding thousands of dollars worth of suddenly illegal stock.

  • byRachael Dexter

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Tobacco tax increase to raise $3.3b,more health spending in budget
Healthcare

Tobacco tax increase to raise $3.3b,more health spending in budget

An average cigarette packet will cost about $10 more within four years and all GPs will be able to prescribe vapes under new measures to break nicotine addictions.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
The plan to purchase 40,000 vape detectors for public school toilets
Education

The plan to purchase 40,000 vape detectors for public school toilets

Education Minister Prue Car said the detectors were just one option being considered to combat the vaping crisis in high schools.

  • byChristopher Harris
‘This must end’:Butler to ban disposable vapes as part of black market crackdown
Healthcare

‘This must end’:Butler to ban disposable vapes as part of black market crackdown

Health Minister Mark Butler says the government would eliminate millions of products from convenience store shelves.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
‘The worst possible time’:Millions of dollars sliced from community health
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Healthcare

‘The worst possible time’:Millions of dollars sliced from community health

State government funding will be slashed from Victoria’s community health organisations including cuts to crucial preventative programs targeting vaping and obesity.

  • byMelissa Cunningham
Chemist Warehouse,former health minister’s lobby group among medical vape shareholders
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Healthcare

Chemist Warehouse,former health minister’s lobby group among medical vape shareholders

Liber Pharmaceuticals is poised to capitalise if Australia succeeds in becoming the first country to regulate nicotine vapes as medical products sold to people with a doctor’s prescription but banned for general use.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
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Vape prescription sale regulations need to be tightly guarded
Opinion
Opinion

Vape prescription sale regulations need to be tightly guarded

Public health experts are worried that the rising vaping rates among young people threatens decades of hard-won progress in reducing smoking rates with tobacco companies now eyeing the untapped Australian vape market.

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‘Ultimate hypocrisy’:Who is really behind the pro-vape ad campaign?
Advertising

‘Ultimate hypocrisy’:Who is really behind the pro-vape ad campaign?

Big tobacco is exploiting loopholes in vaping advertising rules and up to its old tricks in marketing products to young people while presenting itself as a responsible corporate citizen.

  • byAnna Patty
Vape flavours would be banned and import permit required under crackdown
Mark Butler

Vape flavours would be banned and import permit required under crackdown

Australia will remain a global outlier in maintaining its prescription-only approach to vaping. But it is seeking to strengthen restrictions,given a flourishing black market.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
‘We will not stand for it’:Campaign for vaping without prescription goes up in smoke
Healthcare

‘We will not stand for it’:Campaign for vaping without prescription goes up in smoke

Health Minister Mark Butler has told the Labor caucus that the tobacco industry has found a new way to develop a generation of nicotine addicts.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
Why vapers don’t know they are also banned from non-smoking areas
Sydney councils

Why vapers don’t know they are also banned from non-smoking areas

As the popularity of e-cigarettes increases among younger people,councils and universities may need to update their “no smoking” signs to include vaping.

  • byMary Ward