In Australia, most of the tobacco store chains were grey market importing vapes from Asia that had nicotine in them even if they were labelled nicotine-free. They also weren’t up to our mandated standards, often containing many nasty chemicals that people shouldn’t vape.

The industry also shot itself in the foot with these vapes by opening countless amounts of stores right up the road from every high school in the country. The one near mine has 8 within quick walking distance. They were selling these dodgy vapes to kids, often still in uniform like candy. It wasn’t unusual to see kids come and go from these shops in their school uniforms all the time. A few kids ended up in hospital because of these vapes too.

Personally, I’m glad to see these go and the health of our people will be a lot better for it. This article is also incorrect about the timing, it was announced some months ago that this ban on vapes was coming.

“Disposable” vapes are a blight, so good riddance.

Disposable nicotine vapes, or any other kind of nicotine vape, have been banned federally for import other than via a special access scheme for the last few decades since nicotine was included on the poisons standard.

Just want to clarify that the actual change here is limited to banning 0mg disposables. Since Mark Butler’s health department has decided to continue the trend of totally failing to act on sensible ecig regulation, an entirely expected and totally avoidable de facto standard shipping method of stealth packing nicotine products amongst 0mg has resulted. The China suppliers know that we have zero capacity to detect nicotine at the border and that every word that comes out of Butler’s mouth on the topic is bullshit. They can just flout the law and get away with it. There’s literally no system set up to hold them to account. Border Force aren’t doing GC-MS analysis on your Amazon packages. The only reason the headline says ‘to be banned from January 2024’ is because the government don’t want you to realise they are currently banned, and in fact always have been.

Sounds like he reckons that just keeping an eye out for anything that looks like a disposable shipment will do the trick now? Aw yeah, tell me more about how you don’t understand the scale of freight logisticsin Australia. Is it going to invalidate the existing prescriptions for those products via special access scheme? I’ve had a nicco script for 2 years and haven’t had a single parcel checked.

To wit: if you read this article and didn’t come out of it thinking “shit I’ve gotta hop on AliExpress and get on this for a quick buck”, it’s because you got bullshitted. It’s gonna be creeping up to dethrone cocaine as the hottest Aus consumer commodity 2024. Cheers Mark

I’m sure it’s a coincidence that the tobacco industry is thrilled with this news.

Yeah, it’s much healthier to buy a packet of cigarettes from the g̶o̶v̶e̶r̶n̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ supermarket than buying those scary vapes.

Facists