The Health Minister has revealed a startling number of children under four poisoned by nicotine as he attempts to crackdown on the booming vaping black market.
Mr Butler declared vaping was the biggest behavioural issue in primary schools, revealing more than 50 children under four had been poisoned through the ingestion of nicotine in the last year.adolescents smoking vapes were three times more likely to start smoking cigarettes.
“These vapes are deliberately and cynically marketed to children and teenagers. Some of them have pink unicorns on them, they're bubblegum flavoured,” he told ABC Breakfast on Thursday. Mr Butler proposed working with the TGA to ban flavours particularly marketed at children such as bubblegum or packaging with pink unicorns or fun colours.
The Campaign Director of Legalise Vaping Australia disagreed with Mr Butler’s views on legalisation and declared that “prohibition doesn’t work”.
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