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No fines issued despite rampant selling of illegal vapes in WA, as parent vents frustration

Reece Russell says he collects most of the vapes he disposes of from WA secondary schools.  (ABC News: Kate Leaver)

The sale of nicotine vapes and e-cigarettes without a prescription has been illegal in Western Australia for several years, but not a single retailer has been fined in the past 12 months.

It comes despite more than 24,000 illegal vapes being seized during that period and the Health Department writing to 3,000 retailers in August last year to place them "on notice".

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