Vapes will be harder to access from today, but the restrictions are staged, with some due to roll out later in the year. Here’s what’s changing.
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With 5 million vapers in the UK and rising fast, nearly 500 of these devices are being thrown away every minute.
Small changes, big savings.
Teens who quit vaping or drastically cut back are likely to experience withdrawal symptoms. Here’s how to support young adults through withdrawal and quitting.
Clinical trials have demonstrated the health benefits of cannabis for certain conditions, but many aren’t testing smoked or vaped forms. Research on cannabis smoke is raising concerns.
It’s not just the ingredients we should be concerned about. The devices themselves release chemicals that end up in our blood and urine.
South Africa’s vaping tax is not well-targeted to reduce consumption of vaping products by the youth.
The success of anti-smoking campaigns has come with growing stigma around lung cancer. Over one quarter of Australians admit they have less sympathy for lung cancer sufferers.
Social media platforms have policies prohibiting the promotion of tobacco products, including vaping. But these policies are routinely violated, with little or no consequences.
Many people who vape saying they are trying to quit or to cut down on cigarettes.
Most of our respondents said the main factor driving their vaping was flavouring and taste.
The industry and its allies have been so effective at publicising this unscientific guesstimate, it continues to be used to undermine Australia’s public health policy.
A growing body of evidence shows vaping is not without harms.
Criticism and lecturing won’t help. This will.
We work as part of a team researching drug education. Schools tell us there are rising expulsions due to vaping. We have also heard of students being home schooled so they can continue to vape.
Governments and health bodies agree: it’s time for action on vape imports and sale. But which option will they choose?
A new review has examined the research on vaping. It found Australia is in need of a pragmatic harm reduction approach.
E-cigarettes may be a useful tool to help people quit smoking, but emerging evidence shows how important it is to make this only the first step in giving up altogether.
It’s often said if cigarettes were invented tomorrow, and we knew now what we didn’t know then, they would be banned outright. But vaping is showing us we’re repeating the same mistakes.
In the 1980s and 90s, legal action and awareness helped shift attitudes to tobacco smoking. We have laws against vaping in smoke-free places but the attitude shift is lagging.
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Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Health Promotion and Policy, UMass Amherst, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Rutgers University
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Senior Adviser, The Daffodil Centre, University of Sydney
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Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Community Health and Health Behavior, University at Buffalo
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Mental Health, University of East Anglia
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Associate Professor, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford
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Academic and Director Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health, Curtin University
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Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor and Dean, School of Public Health, Georgia State University
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Director of Tobacco Prevention and Evaluation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Professor of pediatrics, microbiology and immunology, and environmental sciences and engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
