tobacco products

A leading Australian vape advocate has called for an urgent overhaul to the government’s approach to regulating vaping across the country, claiming the current approach is leading to China staging a “reverse opium war”.Health authorities…

Experts are divided over whether proposed new vaping reforms will stamp out a rise in its use among young Australians, or fuel an uptake of smoking. Health Minister Mark Butler announced a major vaping crackdown this week, including banning…

Tobacco companies will have to pay an additional $3.3bn in tax over the next four years in a bid to drive up the price of cigarettes and stop Australians smoking.Health Minister Mark Butler used his speech to the National Press Club in…

David Littleproud has conceded the Coalition “failed” to stop children vaping when it was in power as he again made the case for relaxing laws around the use of e-cigarettes.The Nationals leader argued the law introduced by former health…

One of Australia’s top tobacco control experts has called for an end to the sale of vaping products, unless they are prescribed by a doctor to help them quit smoking.Associate Professor Becky Freeman of the University of Sydney made the…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has fined four electronic cigarette manufacturers over their alleged sales of unauthorized products.  The FDA said in a release on Wednesday that the agency filed a complaint against BAM Group…

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New Zealand will phase in a near-total tobacco ban from next year, prohibiting anyone born after 2008 from ever purchasing cigarettes and reducing the amount of nicotine in products sold in the meantime.Under legislation passed by…