Australia’s near-ban on vaping targets ‘widespread’ use in schools
that would ban the sale of flavoured vaping products as well as colourful packagingIsabelle Charest, the province’s minister responsible for sports and recreation, said at the time that over 90 per cent of vapes used by minors are sweetened or flavoured.
“Nicotine vaping products are being sold featuring colorful flavors and we have even seen products featuring the same type of imagery as children’s breakfast cereal including cartoon characters,” said Nicole Higgins, president of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. The federal budget, due out next week, will include A$234 million for measures to protect against the harm caused by tobacco and vaping.In 2012, it became the first country to force cigarette producers to abandon distinct, colorful branding and sell their products in uniformly drab packets.
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