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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Melissa Davey

Vape stores opening near Australian schools to ‘recruit new generation to nicotine’, Mark Butler says

Health Minister Mark Butler at a press conference
Health minister Mark Butler announced in May that reforms will ban the import of nicotine and non-nicotine vapes and vape products, but no start date has been set for the reforms. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

The federal health minister, Mark Butler, has criticised the proliferation of vape stores, which continue to open despite reforms that will mean only pharmacies can import and sell the products in future.

“We know these vaping stores are increasingly opening in a very deliberate way just down the road from schools, because they realise that is their target consumers,” Butler told Guardian Australia.

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