No one wants kids vaping. But is Labor criminalising adults who flout the crackdown?

‘We have a closing window here before vapes become so widespread … that it would be very difficult to take any action,’ health minister Mark Butler has said. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The Australian Medical Association was in Canberra on Friday pushing for parliament to pass laws to crack down on vaping, expected to be voted on in June.

It hasn’t been smooth sailing for Labor’s proposed ban on importation and penalties for commercial possession of vapes.