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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Politics
Natasha May

Health minister accuses vaping lobby of targeting children after industry ad campaign against ban

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The health minister, Mark Butler, says the vaping industry wants to create a ‘new generation addicted to nicotine’ as ads opposing government policy appear in newspapers. Photograph: Sandra Sanders/Reuters

A vaping lobby group with links to tobacco companies is running ads in Australian newspapers calling for the government to abandon its vaping reforms, in a campaign ministers and experts say is misdirecting the public.

A campaign called Bust the Black Market ran full page advertisements in The Australian and the Daily Telegraph this week calling for e-cigarettes to be regulated “like tobacco and alcohol”.

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