Retail leaders have called for a national policy summit to identify urgent actions to quash black market sales of e-cigarettes.
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Leaders of national retail groups have welcomed the Qld Government’s proposed crackdown on illicit tobacco and illegal vape products.
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Following the seizure of over $1m of illegal vape products in NSW this year, AACS has said NSW’s e-cigarette licensing system needs reform.
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Accessibility of vaping products on the black market is exploding because of the prescription policy, writes Theo Foukkare, CEO, AACS.
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A revamp of vaping product regulations and a crackdown on the sale of such products to kids is needed, says Australian representative groups.
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A decline in NZ’s national smoking rate has seen the Australian Government called upon to implement a similar vaping consumer model.
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New regulations surrounding the sale of nicotine vaping products are set to cause wide-spread confusion across retailers.
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André Calantzopoulos made the announcement at the 2020 Concordia Annual Summit last week as he discussed the state of the industry.
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A federal government proposal to allow pharmacies to sell smoke-free tobacco, to the exclusion of convenience stores has been condemned by the industry.
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A study from the Queen Mary University of London claims that the use of e-cigarettes is more effective for quitting smoking than nicotine patches. The study found that around 18% of e-cigarette users were smoke-free within a year, as opposed to 9.9% of people using nicotine patches and products. The Australian Government’s official position on e-ciagrettes
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The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) said that following the announcement by the New Zealand Associate Minister of Health, Hon Jenny Salesa, to legalise vaping and nicotine e-cigarettes, Australia will soon sit behind more than 60 other countries in continuing to ban the alternatives to traditional tobacco products. The announcement by Associate Minister Salesa last Friday
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The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) said the CSIRO report released yesterday indicates that the time has come to legalise nicotine e-cigarettes in Australia. The E-cigarettes, smoking and health literature review indicates that e-cigarettes can assist some smokers in quitting traditional cigarettes, and provides evidence for a range of health improvements when conventional tobacco smokers make
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The UK National Health Service (NHS) has claimed that second-hand smoke contains more than 4000 cancer-causing chemicals, but that second-hand vape smoke has “no identified health risks”.
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