Tag: vaping control
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Can we eradicate commercial tobacco disease and death?
Raglan Maddox and Michelle Kennedy The commercial Tobacco Industry continues to profit off addiction, disease, and death, perpetuating health inequities. For over 70 years, we have known that when used as directed, commercial tobacco products kill. Australia has been a leader in tobacco control through plain packaging, tax reforms, and…
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Vaping regulation: what just happened?
Malcolm Baalman, PHAA This week Parliament finally concluded its approval of the “Vaping Reforms” package of amendments to the Therapeutic Goods Act. The Bill is the final component of several months of moves to settle Australia’s ‘world-leading’ model of control of e-cigarette supply into our community. Many elements of the…
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Comprehensive vaping reforms needed to protect kids
Dr Matthew Tuson and Angela Gazey “Brick and mortar” vape stores have proliferated across Australia in recent years. One only needs to search ‘vape stores’ on Google Maps to see their ubiquitous presence. Our recent research, published in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (ANZJPH), identified almost…
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First phase of measures against vaping to combat growing harms
Associate Professor Michelle Jongenelis Disposable vapes are the brightly coloured plastic devices you’re seeing kids and young adults puffing on pretty much everywhere. They are also the devices you’re accidentally stepping on when walking along the footpath. While we were busy figuring out how to survive COVID-19, disposable vapes hit…
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Parliament overhauls national tobacco law
Malcolm Baalman, Public Health Association of Australia Arguably the most important item of public health legislation to be addressed by our national Parliament in over a decade was finally approved by the Senate last week. The Public Health (Tobacco and Other Products) Bill 2023 is the result of a 4-year…