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

‘Lives are at stake’: Australia returns to the nicotine frontline with vaping reform

girl vaping
Rates of children vaping in Australia has doubled between 2016 and 2019, prompting the government to embark on reforming the sale of the nicotine products. Photograph: Steven Senne/AP

Australia’s health minister, Mark Butler, was just weeks into the job when he realised the extent of the growing public health disaster that is youth e-cigarette use.

“We’re going to deal with the same legacy of nicotine addiction through vaping that we dealt with for many decades through cigarettes,” he says.

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