Vapes will be sold only through pharmacies with people under 18 banned from buying them unless they have a prescription in a move that has been slammed by the healthcare professionals' peak body.
The federal government cut a deal with the Greens to dump prescriptions for adults in order to clear the way for reforms to pass the Senate.
But the Pharmacy Guild of Australia wants prescriptions to remain in place, arguing pharmacists were healthcare professionals who dispensed medication that had a proven therapeutic benefit.
