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Majority of Australians support action to protect young people from vaping

Majority of Australians support action to protect young people from vaping

2022-08-16

August 16 news, according to foreign reports, a new report from the Cancer Council Victoria Cancer Behaviour Research Centre (CBRC) shows that the vast majority of Australians (83%) overwhelmingly support action to regulate and enforce e-cigarettes, To prevent the new generation from becoming addicted to nicotine.


The report uses data from Life in Australia, a probability-based panel at the Centre for Social Research.


The illicit over-the-counter supply of e-cigarettes is threatening Australia's decades of public health success, particularly among young people, with a recent Australian National University report confirming that the majority of e-cigarette users are young people who Both vaping and vaping.


Cancer Council Australia chief executive Professor Tanya Buchanan warned that most Australians appeared to recognise the public health threat and wanted to act now.


The CBRC report, commissioned by Cancer Council Australia and Quit, also revealed that three-quarters (76%) of 1824-year-old Australians (the age group with the highest vaping rate) and 70% of Australians overall agree that vaping is highly addictive .


Professor Buchanan continued, noting that the results showed strong public support for immediate enhanced compliance and enforcement measures by federal and state/territory governments.


She added that the federal government must act to stop the illegal importation of e-cigarettes at the border, and state and territory governments need to ensure they crack down on retailers who openly and illegally sell nicotine e-cigarettes without a valid prescription.


Quit head Dr Sarah White said manufacturers and retailers were deliberately mislabeling e-cigarettes, claiming they did not contain nicotine, to avoid being caught importing or selling illegal e-cigarettes.


This means that many people who try e-cigarettes mistakenly believe that they will not become addicted.


She concluded that it would make it easier to enforce laws designed to protect all Australians from companies seeking to profit from the sale of harmful e-cigarettes to them.


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