From the outside, the stores look like “every child’s dream”, says University of Sydney tobacco control expert Prof Becky Freeman.
Throughout Australia, an increasing number of stores are opening, displaying colourful, often international lolly brands in their windows, including across the road from schools. Inside the stores, e-cigarettes and vapes are readily available in similarly attractive packaging and flavours to sweets and ice-cream – bubble gum, watermelon and exotic lime.
