Legalise Vaping Australia, the nation's largest pro-vaping advocacy organization, has commended NSW Premier, Dominic Perrottet, for his success in quitting smoking by switching to vaping.
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Legalise Vaping Australia, the largest pro-vaping advocacy organisation in Australia, has welcomed the announcement made by the NSW Greens to legalise and regulate nicotine vaping. At the Public Health Association of Australia’s health debate, Greens MP Cate Faehrmann announced the policy, which seeks to put an end to the nicotine vape black market and reduce the harms associated with vaping.
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On behalf of 1.2 million adult Australian vapers, Legalise Vaping Australia (LVA) formally made its submission to the Federal Government’s review of regulation of nicotine vaping products today, calling for vapes to be sold as an adult consumer product and for Canberra to give up its addiction to tobacco taxes, and focus on saving lives instead.
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Legalise Vaping Australia (LVA), the voice of 1.1 million Australian adult vapers, welcomes Health Minister Mark Butler’s review of nicotine vaping regulations.
Announced yesterday, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has now opened public consultations to potential vaping reforms, aimed at preventing young people from accessing nicotine vaping products, while supporting access for adults who use these products for smoking cessation.
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New findings from the Cochrane Review – the global gold standard in independent medical evidence reviews – should change the debate for good in Australia on vaping as a quitting tool for smokers, Legalise Vaping Australia said today.
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The revelation that promised reviews of Australia’s prohibition-style vaping regulations never happened underscore the complete failure of the policy, Legalise Vaping Australia said today.
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Today’s media revelations of the widespread strain on Medicare is further evidence of the pressure Australia’s unworkable vaping policy is creating, Legalise Vaping Australia said today.
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A new review of data and research on vaping and smoking by internationally-respected academics for the British government highlights the embarrassingly bad approach Australia has taken on e-cigarette regulation and should be the catalyst for immediate reform, Legalise Vaping Australia (LVA) said today.
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Legalise Vaping Australia, the nation’s largest pro-vaping advocacy body, is calling on state and federal governments to do more to better represent Australia’s growing vaping community, which now totals 1,100,000 vapers across Australia.
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Legalise Vaping Australia, the advocacy group campaigning for the well-regulated sale of vaping products, has thrown its support behind increasing calls for a national education campaign on e-cigarettes.
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May 30 marks World Vape Day, and while other nations will be celebrating success in reducing smoking rates, Australia is wrestling with a burgeoning black market and rising rates of youth vaping that could be tackled with simple policy changes, Legalise Vaping Australia (LVA) said today.
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The party you choose tomorrow will determine whether your rights as a vaper are respected – and whether we get sensible laws that acknowledge vaping as a much less harmful alternative to smoking.
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The Government-funded study by Australian National University researchers released today makes important findings on the risks of vaping to young people but completely fails to address the most critical public health question – the risks of vaping relative to smoking cigarettes -- when it comes to informing regulatory policy, Legalise Vaping says.
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard’s arguments on the health risks of vaping are deeply concerning and out of touch with the mainstream views of almost every country in the OECD, Legalise Vaping Australia (LVA) said today.
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The explosion of vaping in schools that has finally triggered a response from the NSW Government is a result of backwards regulations that have fostered a black market and could have easily been avoided, Legalise Vaping Australia (LVA) said today.
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Ongoing media reports about vaping use in schools shine a welcome spotlight on Australia’s utterly shambolic regulatory approach to vaping products.
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A major Australian study published today provides conclusive evidence that nicotine vaping products – currently illegal to buy over the counter in Australia – are a powerful weapon for reducing rates of smoking in the community.
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Revelations of widespread vaping use by Queensland schoolkids come as no surprise to anyone with even a basic understanding of how black markets come into being and thrive.
The focus on this issue serves only to demonstrate the catastrophically bad design of Australia’s vaping regulations.
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An in-depth new study by Australian researchers looking at the global evidence for the effectiveness of nicotine vaping devices as a tool for quitting cigarettes has confirmed what hundreds of thousands of Aussie vapers already know: vapes help you kick the habit.
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Only 71 doctors across Australia have signed up to be authourised prescribers of vaping products ahead of the Federal Government’s October 1 deadline, setting up a chaotic scenario in GP surgeries around the country
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