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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Melissa Davey Medical editor

Australian teenagers urge government to help them break vaping addiction

A 16-year-old girl described how ‘all we have to do is go to a cheap servo … and there we can buy a vape without being asked for identification of age’.
A 16-year-old girl described how ‘all we have to do is go to a cheap servo … and there we can buy a vape without being asked for identification of age’. Photograph: Francesco Carta fotografo/Getty Images

Teenagers have urged the Australian government to help them break their nicotine addiction, submissions to a major consultation on vaping reforms reveal.

A submission to drug regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration from South Australia’s commissioner for children and young people, Helen Connolly, included comments from some of the 950 teenagers aged 13-to-19 surveyed by her office about vaping.

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