Vapeboss – Australia has tightened its e-cigarette laws, including introducing new controls on imports and packaging to stop vaping, especially among children. Many tobacco harm reduction experts have urged Australian authorities to relax vape laws so that the devices are available to smokers who wish to use them to quit smoking. However, local regulators refuse to listen and insist that their chosen strategy is the correct one. Nevertheless, young people in Australia are secretly buying and using vapes.

Australian Health Minister Mark Butler called vaping a "public health threat." Despite scientific data showing its public health benefits, opposition leader David Littleproud recently emphasized the importance of relaxing vape laws and regulating products to protect adults and minors.

Many experts have provided opinions on smoking cessation strategies along with research journals on tobacco harm reduction, and the fact that the current strict vape laws are considered a complete failure. Australian regulators recently announced further restrictions on vaping products, making them even less accessible to adult smokers who wish to use them to quit smoking.

In this regard, the head of Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Professor John Skerrit, recently admitted that "the current policy appears to be completely ineffective" but refused to take responsibility for it.

42 experts in their field wrote a letter to Health Minister Butler, some of whom are well-known tobacco treatment experts Dr. Colin Mendelsohn and Dr. Wayne Wodak, Consultant Emeritus at the Drug and Alcohol Services, reiterating policy points they have not only highlighted for years but also facts that have been scientifically proven. The letter urged Butler to consider the available science on vaping products and explained that a well-designed regulatory model would prevent access to minors while making products accessible to adult smokers.

They also argued that the policies created would provide a great opportunity for the black market industry to grow, potentially threatening product access for minors. Meanwhile, adult smokers would have a harder time gaining access to safer alternatives that are already difficult to obtain through legal channels. This would lead to former smokers relapsing. Therefore, smoking rates would decline slower than they should, and result in more avoidable smoking-related deaths and illnesses.

Source: Vapingpost

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