Watering down of bill means chance to curb use has been lost, professor says. Follow today’s news headlines live
More reaction to the vaping decision:
The chief executive of the Public Health Association of Australia, Terry Slevin, said the PHAA supported the government legislation as originally put forward, “and that remains our strongly preferred model”.
Someone I spoke to earlier talked about the days when we were trying to get smoke-free zones in restaurants and pubs and clubs.
We got restaurants first, and we got pubs and clubs some years later, because tobacco control has always been a long, slow road.
That means we need measures to ensure that there is no advertising of these products allowed to pharmacists, that there’s no wining and dining of pharmacists to try and get certain vape products into pharmacies, and we need to ensure that vapes remain a therapeutic product and not a consumer good that’s just available to anyone going to a pharmacy.
Continue reading…Watering down of bill means chance to curb use has been lost, professor says. Follow today’s news headlines liveMore reaction to the vaping decision:The chief executive of the Public Health Association of Australia, Terry Slevin, said the PHAA supported the government legislation as originally put forward, “and that remains our strongly preferred model”.Someone I spoke to earlier talked about the days when we were trying to get smoke-free zones in restaurants and pubs and clubs.We got restaurants first, and we got pubs and clubs some years later, because tobacco control has always been a long, slow road.That means we need measures to ensure that there is no advertising of these products allowed to pharmacists, that there’s no wining and dining of pharmacists to try and get certain vape products into pharmacies, and we need to ensure that vapes remain a therapeutic product and not a consumer good that’s just available to anyone going to a pharmacy. Continue reading…