The ultimate goal is to discourage electronic cigarettes, increasingly popular above all among teenagers: il Australian government announced a squeeze for this. The measure provides for an increase in controls on imports and on packaging.
To bring it back there Cnnwhich underlines how the Australian one represents one of major smoking reforms in over a decade. For the Australian Minister of Health Mark Butler I vape itor the action of inhaling the aerosol produced by an electronic cigarette, is now a behavioral problem important in high schooland it is a worrying phenomenon because it is growing even in the elementary institutions.
The minister warns against the use of a product created to discourage cigarettes. “The i vape it has been sold to governments and communities around the world as a product to help smokers quit,” he said Butler. “It was not sold as a recreational product, especially not for our children. But this is what it has become: the biggest loophole in Australian history”.
Before the changes were announced, the only legal way to sell a vape of nicotine in Australia it was through a prescription provided by a doctor at a pharmacy, although e-cigarettes were easy to find all over the country even without a prescription. With the new regulations, it will be strictly The importation of vaporizers is prohibited without a prescription: in addition to this, the devices must present a packaging pharmaceutical grade, and will be sold exclusively as products to help smokers quit.