“Disposable” vapes are a blight, so good riddance.

They're so obviously unnecessary I'm surprised more places haven't banned them. They're also new, so conservatives should instinctively hate them.

We need a more generic approach to throwaway culture: the societal cost of disposing of things needs to be embedded in the price of those things. But in the case of vapes, I don't see how that can have a big impact: reusable vape pens only seem to be about twice the cost of a disposable, so anyone who is even remotely thinking rationally about price would be getting reusable ones.

Experts have warned that not enough is known yet about the long-term impacts of vaping.

Oh boy are they really still on with that disinformation? Also argument from ignorance at best, or consciously lying and misinforming at worst.

Intensive studies were made already in the 50's, to use the base elements for vaping as a defense against airway infections in kindergartens and shopping malls. It was found to both work and be VERY safe!
I don't understand how this misinformation is even legal? Considering there is massive amounts of studies that show the safety puts it a a risk level of about 2% of smoking a cigarette.
That however is if you do not add flavor, and use only the base VG or PG in juices together with medical grade nicotine, which is what almost all makers use today here.

I absolutely agree that there is no need to have single use vapes, they are clearly a resource waste that causes unnecessary pollution much like single use plastic.

In Australia, most of the tobacco store chains were grey market importing vapes from Asia that had nicotine in them even if they were labelled nicotine-free. They also weren't up to our mandated standards, often containing many nasty chemicals that people shouldn't vape.

The industry also shot itself in the foot with these vapes by opening countless amounts of stores right up the road from every high school in the country. The one near mine has 8 within quick walking distance. They were selling these dodgy vapes to kids, often still in uniform like candy. It wasn't unusual to see kids come and go from these shops in their school uniforms all the time. A few kids ended up in hospital because of these vapes too.

Personally, I'm glad to see these go and the health of our people will be a lot better for it. This article is also incorrect about the timing, it was announced some months ago that this ban on vapes was coming.

I have a prescription vape. Five pharmacies in my area don't stock the device or juice. The one that had it charged me for 7 boxes of juice even though they only had 5 boxes because "we're only allowed to sell 7 at a time". Went to refill my prescription and they don't have the juice and refused to order it. They told me to go to another store over an hour away.

Noone wants smokers to quit, the government wants the taxes from cigarettes, the quit foundation openly tell you they don't want to stop smoking (that would put them out of a job) and the pharmacies make more from all their nicotine replacement therapies than a vape setup that lasts 8 months. The black market is fantastic though. Cheap smokes sold at all convenience stores, milk bars, gift shops and independant supermarkets. They don't ask for id either. My go to shop is opposite a police station.

The same in France:

The government also wants to ban “puffs”, single-use disposable e-cigarettes that Rousseau said were popular among young people, but which had a heavy impact on health and the environment.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/28/france-ban-smoking-beaches-effort-create-tobacco-free-generation

Disposable nicotine vapes, or any other kind of nicotine vape, have been banned federally for import other than via a special access scheme for the last few decades since nicotine was included on the poisons standard.

Just want to clarify that the actual change here is limited to banning 0mg disposables. Since Mark Butler's health department has decided to continue the trend of totally failing to act on sensible ecig regulation, an entirely expected and totally avoidable de facto standard shipping method of stealth packing nicotine products amongst 0mg has resulted. The China suppliers know that we have zero capacity to detect nicotine at the border and that every word that comes out of Butler's mouth on the topic is bullshit. They can just flout the law and get away with it. There's literally no system set up to hold them to account. Border Force aren't doing GC-MS analysis on your Amazon packages. The only reason the headline says 'to be banned from January 2024' is because the government don't want you to realise they are currently banned, and in fact always have been.

Sounds like he reckons that just keeping an eye out for anything that looks like a disposable shipment will do the trick now? Aw yeah, tell me more about how you don't understand the scale of freight logisticsin Australia. Is it going to invalidate the existing prescriptions for those products via special access scheme? I've had a nicco script for 2 years and haven't had a single parcel checked.

To wit: if you read this article and didn't come out of it thinking "shit I've gotta hop on AliExpress and get on this for a quick buck", it's because you got bullshitted. It's gonna be creeping up to dethrone cocaine as the hottest Aus consumer commodity 2024. Cheers Mark

How many times have they "banned" vapes now? Are they actually going to do it?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Australia will ban imports of disposable vapes from January, in an effort to curb nicotine addiction in children.

Vapes, or e-cigarettes, are lithium battery-powered devices that have cartridges filled with liquids containing nicotine, artificial flavourings, and a range of other chemicals.

It has been illegal for any Australian to purchase or import e-cigarettes or nicotine vapes without a doctor's prescription since 2021, but despite those restrictions rates of addiction have continued to skyrocket.

"All Australian governments are committed to working together to stop the disturbing growth in vaping among our young people," said Mark Butler, the federal health minister who is leading the ban.

Importers and manufacturers supplying therapeutic vapes will also have to comply with tighter government regulation concerning the flavours, nicotine levels, and packaging of their products.

Australia's announcement comes just days after New Zealand's government scrapped its world-leading smoking ban to pay for tax cuts.

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Aww. I liked the free batteries.