Australien will nicht-medizinische E-Zigaretten verbieten, was das härteste Vorgehen der Welt darstellt

by javelin3000

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  3. I guess people will just smoke cigarettes instead because that’s a safer alternative. /s

  4. So… are we still a free country or can we drop that pretence?

    “Free” and “world’s toughest crackdown” don’t go together.

  7. Exit “good” vapes, enter Chinese toxic vapes.

  8. I’ve never used tobacco/nicotine in my life , nor do I even drink alcohol. But people should be able to do what they want, so long as they aren’t hurting others. Aussies continue to allow a nanny state.

  9. This seems like madness to me – do they want young folk to start smoking fags instead ?

  10. Lol, more Chinese shit incoming. Maybe control all the shit in your ports first Australia.

  11. Vapes are ridiculous in nz. Really dropped the ball by getting a whole heap of young ppl who didn’t smoke or care about smoking addicted to vapes

  13. I’m American so it’s not my circus, but this is how I feel: They should instead be focusing on cracking down on the ridiculously easy access to **children**. Vendors STILL get away with selling to minors, way too many adults procure and provide them to minors. There are single digit kids vaping and that’s so many kinds of fucked. At LEAST start by doing away with all flavors and pretty colors, like Juul did (never mind that they were forced to via an ungodly amount of lawsuits). You can get menthol, tobacco, and that’s it. They do *not* taste nice. Banning them across the board is gonna start a mini-prohibition in which toxic Chinese vapes will be rolling in and vaping really will start killing people. That, and people WILL return to cigarettes, which is a massive backfire.

    I’m not proud of vaping, I don’t think it’s cool and something to brag about, but I’m 30 goddamn years old and an ex-smoker who gets soothing effects from nicotine, if I’m fully informed of the risks and want it anyway and don’t do stupid shit like blowing clouds in people’s faces, that’s my right. I’m hurting no one but myself. If we’re going to do away with nicotine, better send alcohol along with it, that is the deadliest drug of all. No need to punish absolutely everybody because idiots keep allowing free access to children, punish and drop the hammer on THEM.

    Edit: Clarification

  16. A whole lot of non-Australians here without any idea of why we’ve done this. This is not to stop adults vaping. This is to stop children vaping.

    There is currently a massive nationwide problem with children using vapes. It’s a huge problem in schools. I’m a teacher and it is crazy how many kids have them. 30% of kids have used them (actual figures, not just my experience).

    These kids would not be smoking instead. They like the bubblegum flavour and doing vape tricks. They don’t see any harm in it, but they’re absolutely addicted to nicotine and can barely last a 70-minute class.

    Folks will cry “nanny state” or whatever, but we tried regulating them, and distributors were still selling them online without any checks.

  19. Shout-out to thevapingbogan…. You tried bro, nobody listened.

  20. The only issue with vaping is illegal vapes. This will do nothing to help. In fact it will push people to either cigarettes (which afawk are infinitely more harmful) or illegal vapes (which are the actual problem).

  22. Wish New Zealand would do the same. Children vaping nicotine vapes at school.

  24. Way to go. Push former, classic cig smokers back into hands of them.

  25. I don’t get the resistence to vaping when ciggarettes are so much worse

  29. Next ban: cigarettes and non-medical alcohol, right?

    Riiiight

  30. Wow people not reading the article and not knowing anything about smoking and Australia, on reddit… never.

  31. I quit vaping in October after 5 years. I feel so good. And I’m also not throwing away a lithium battery twice a week.

  32. Australians can’t be trusted and need to be told what to do and what not to do. Stems from the early days as a prison colony.

  33. Australia loves healthiness almost as much at they love tax money.

  34. Why??? Has anyone died from vape? Just let people vibe holy shit

  37. Good ole Australia the land of over regulation because we dont like something

  39. Cant Australian high school kids just order vapes in the mail?

  41. India also banned vapes. Modi government got played by the tobacco giants.

  42. Banning things always seems to work out, I’m sure this will in no way backfire.

    /ssssss

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