Australia needs to buy E liquid, and New Zealand has lifted the ban.
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According to the Australian News Group, nicotine E liquid and vapes are banned in Australia and are now legal in New Zealand.This move will certainly increase the pressure on the Australian political circles to force them to amend the laws on nicotine E liquid and vape.
Australians want to buy nicotine E liquid, which requires a prescription from a professional pharmacist. If they don't have a prescription, they will face fines and even imprisonment.
Earlier this year, a federal investigation recommended that the ban on nicotine E liquid and vapes continue, although the investigating chairman submitted his own opposition report calling for legalization.
Trent Zimmerman, chairman of the commission of inquiry, said that if long-term smokers use vapes as a substitute for tobacco, vapes can save thousands of lives.
The committee also reviewed the results of a study in the UK that urged smokers to accept nicotine vapes as a smoking cessation tool because it found vapes to be 95% less harmful than smoking.
At the end of last year, Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt announced that the ban on vapes would not occur during his tenure.
In April this year, NSW and other states in Australia banned the use of any form of electronic cigarettes in public places. Supporters of vapes said that New Zealand’s latest move is “common sense of victory”.
Professor Colin Mendelsohn of the University of New South Wales said: "Most of the hazards of burning tobacco are caused by 7,000 chemicals produced by the combustion process, and in vapes, most of these substances will disappear. Prohibiting a safer The products to help thousands of smokers quit smoking are immoral and unscientific."
In announcing the change, New Zealand Health Minister Nicky Wagner said that scientific evidence on the safety of vapes is still evolving, "but it is widely believed that vapes are much less harmful than smoking."