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Rachael Ward

'Vendors of death': health official blasts e-cigarettes

E-cigarettes were introduced as a potential therapy to help smokers give up cigarettes. (Diego Fedele/AAP PHOTOS)

A top health official has blasted e-cigarette makers as "vendors of death" as Victoria mulls introducing a tobacco licensing scheme.

Victoria is the only Australian state without a scheme or formal plans to introduce one, with Queensland's to begin in September 2024.

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